Long Now Foundation

Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Challenges that feel impossible to tackle within a single human lifetime become conceivable when you have a longer timescale to work with.

Today is a day to take the long view.

Join our community of long-term thinking, 02026 is going to be a good one. https://t.co/WZ7cPt9H6i

[Denise Hearn @denisehearn_]

~40% of our @longnow Labs applications have come in within the last 24 hours...and we are still accepting submissions until midnight PST tonight, so the percentage will likely go higher.

Apparently a huge number of us are procrastinators! Solidarity to all of you out there.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Thank you to our incredible speakers, some of whom you can follow on this platform: @ericries @indy_johar @DarkMatter_Labs @ninamiolane @claire_i_webb @AyinPress

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! If you missed one, you can find all full-length episodes on YouTube at https://t.co/TyMGhIu0l3

This season we heard from Melody Jue on ocean memory, Nina Miolane and Claire Isabel Webb on the geometry of consciousness, Eric Ries on incorruptibility, Stefan Sagmeister on optimism, Bayo Akomolafe on new time paradigms, and Indy Johar on planetary consciousness.

We'll return this fall with Art & Science at The Bristlecone Preserve, on Sep 29. See all upcoming events at https://t.co/XcqsypFoKr

Thank you to all the Long Now members, you make this programming possible. If you’re not a member, this is your invitation into the world of long-term thinking. Join the community -> https://t.co/OmXPpJVFSy

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

[Last call: deadline tomorrow] Help us build the next generation of applied long-term thinking.

Applications close Friday, June 5th -> https://t.co/UdCCszNfu2

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools.

Lab Series 001 is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute to investigate three aspects of civilizational durability that are being radically reshaped by frontier technologies.

-> Lab 001.1: Book of Time - An open call to submit a concept for a new way of marking, experiencing, or making sense of time.
-> Lab 001.2: Epistemic Cycles - Seeking an individual or team to investigate historical patterns of technological disruption that broke down society's ability to discern truth.
-> Lab 001.3: Interspecies Protocols - Exploring the protocols needed to support interspecies ecologies.

If you are a designer, researcher, writer, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are now open.

Learn more about Labs and how to apply: https://t.co/meZmRDc8t2

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

[Last call: deadline tomorrow] If you are a designer, researcher, writer, or technologist interested in the deep future, Long Now Labs wants to hear from you!

Applications close Friday, June 5th -> https://t.co/UdCCszNNjA

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

@WarpRecords You can browse original issues of Whole Earth Catalog, created by Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand in 01968, here: https://t.co/NgvrDjF6xb

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

For 14 issues beginning in 02020, @WarpRecords published a Whole Earth Catalog-style “mixtape” of expertly curated art, music, articles, and videos. Here’s how they described it:

“Warp Earth Catalog is a weekly mixtape of ideas to inspire, inform, enable and energize creativity and positivity in a time of global disruption and uncertainty. Based on the classic countercultural guide the Whole Earth Catalog and its credo of ‘access to tools’, these are tools for strength, awareness and thoughtful entertainment. From wherever in the world we are, let’s support each other, make things and help maintain the ecosystem of independent creativity.”

Even years later, these issues remain highly relevant, wide ranging, and absurdly hip. Explore their archive here: https://t.co/4E2fl79FiU

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Watch the 𝘌𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 preview here: https://t.co/UR0AL0gl6r

More about the Centuries of the Bristlecone project here:https://t.co/YrNVhqYGSa

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

We're an official selection at CineGlobe Film Festival in Geneva, Switzerland! 𝘌𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦, our making-of documentary about the Centuries of the Bristlecone art installation, will be premiering at CERN this weekend. We are so thrilled and honored. Stay tuned for on-the-ground updates from the festival.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Eight sophisticated civilizations across the Mediterranean collapsed within decades of 01177 BCE. What happened? Historians are still arguing about it.

Archaeologist @DriesDaems explores the question: What if the very interconnectedness that made those societies powerful also made them catastrophically brittle? It’s a pattern worth investigating deeply in 02026.

Read the article on Long Now Ideas: https://t.co/4Bv4yk73Is

[Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) @blaiseaguera]

2. “Maintenance of Everything: Part One” by @stewartbrand

This book is about exactly what it says on the tin. Yet it’s weirdly compelling, even for a non-handy person like me.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

The deadline is approaching to submit your concepts for the first cohort of Long Now Labs. From reimagining deep time to new methods for discerning truth, we want to hear from you!

Build the next generation of applied long-term thinking. Submissions close in one week, on June 5.

Apply here: https://t.co/q6L8XSqvAe

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

"I saw my first Whole Earth Catalog in a bookstore. I opened it up and it was like, ‘This is for me. He's talking to me. This is exactly everything that I'm interested in.'"

Kevin Kelly, Long Now board member and founding editor of Wired magazine, talks to @substack about long-term thinking, technoptimism, and how he helped shape the early internet.

(plus, it’s filmed in a beautiful location if we do say so ourselves)
https://t.co/3ubppxYe40

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

My radical optimism is on display in this indepth interview of me running on the new Substack podcast. Set in the legendary bar with a long view, The Interval. https://t.co/vN02atJSsW

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

A molecule too complex to have formed by chance could be a signature of life. This is the assembly theory framework, which could reshape how we search for life beyond Earth.

Researchers @leecronin and @Sara_Imari explain on Long Now Ideas:
https://t.co/y0XJCjNksN

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Watch @ninamiolane and @claire_i_webb's full episode on YouTube here: https://t.co/5ZrElC1mys

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? Nina Miolane proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with Claire Isabel Webb.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/s2ydmLFaTw

[Interintellect 🧭 @interintellect_]

TODAY.✨️

We built clocks to serve us. Somewhere along the way, that flipped. 🕰️

In partnership with @longnow, philosopher Bayo Akomolafe and host @denisehearn_ are meeting online to break down how the modern clock shapes our minds — and what it looks like to reclaim our own pace.

Join us for Part 2:
https://t.co/td66TR4PDT

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Bayo Akomolafe’s Long Now Talk took us on a journey through Yoruba cosmology, slave ship histories, and decolonization strategies. He invited us to look at the space between the tick and the tock, to sit in the uncomfortable and incomplete. Only here, in what he called “parapolitics of the untimely,” can we ask, “What does untimeliness make possible?”

Watch the full Talk on YouTube here: https://t.co/0uC46ctRSZ
Or listen on any podcast app: https://t.co/jQZaarBpA0

Presented in collaboration with @ayinpress, publisher of Akomolafe’s new book Selah, available here: https://t.co/lzGEyEKczL

[Denise Hearn @denisehearn_]

Pinch me! What an exceptional group of reviewers.

Deadline for our Book of Time Lab is two weeks today (June 5) – if you have a quirky, playful, imaginative, or monumental idea about time, this project is for you.

https://t.co/jHl9h8m0PH

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

[Open call] Long Now Labs is looking for new concepts for marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Submissions will be reviewed by our incredible panel of artists, philosophers, and technologists.

The winning 25 concepts will be included in a Long Now print book and digital anthology. The top 3 will be developed into working prototypes.

Submissions close in two weeks, deadline June 5. Read the full prompt and apply here: https://t.co/EdYPtx8ux7