The 5 Best Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking Podcast Episodes
1) Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology
What is the role and purpose of Anthropology today? Wade Davis looks back at the pioneering work of Franz Boas in the early 20th century that upended long-held Western assumptions on race & gender, al...Show More
2) Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Value
What happens when we confuse price with value? We end up undervaluing care. We pollute more. And the financial sector is allowed to brag about how productive it is—while often just moving around exist...Show More
3) Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny
The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever. In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-...Show More
4) Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living
It’s a lot more than “Seize the day.” We learn from the dying to push away nothing; to lose the habit of postponing things; to show up entirely; to find rest amid whatever; to go ahead and be surpris...Show More
5) Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last
Neil's talk will explore the way stories, myths and tales survive over great lengths of time and why creating for the future means making works that will endure within the oral tradition. Preternat...Show More
6) Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era
What if AI is not here actually to replace us, but to remind us who we actually are? That was the question at the heart of Kim Carson’s Long Now Talk. In “Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Cr...Show More
7) Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life
“What is life?” In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemingly simple question. Starting from the simplest prec...Show More
8) Ezra Klein, Michael Pollan, Derek Thompson: Abundance
Presented in partnership with Manny's and City Arts & Lectures As they look upon the United States of America in 02025, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson see a country wrought by a half-century of fail...Show More
9) Stephen Heintz, Kim Stanley Robinson: A Logic For The Future: International Relations in the Age of Turbulence
Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson say we live in an “Age of Turbulence.” Looking around our geopolitical situation, it’s easy to see what they mean. Faced with the ever-growing threat of clim...Show More
10) K Allado-McDowell: On Neural Media
How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fascinating Long Now Talk that explored the dimensions of Ne...Show More