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

[jem 💜🩵🩷 @sheherenow_]

i’ve lately felt alienated from san francisco’s current incarnation of strivers and clout chasers; the so-called “tech” “industry” that no longer feels like a home for the curious and optimistic humanity-centered technologist

tonight @longnow reminded me who my people are 💖

[Todd Dailey @twid]

Every lecture on intelligence and the future should have interpretive dance and harp accompaniment! @longnow

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Wow, thank you Long Now community, all events for the remainder of 02026 are sold out! 

If you couldn’t get in, a reminder: Newsletter subscribers get ticket announcements first. Sign up here: https://t.co/HQIKMxUpMx

Plus, members get two complimentary tickets to all Talks at the Cowell Theater. Next year’s Talk lineup is extraordinary, so now is a great time to join: https://t.co/UKW3WJtMPD

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Ahead of Entangled Intelligences, revisit Nina Miolane's extraordinary conversation with Entangled speaker Claire Isabel Webb on the search for unifying principles of intelligence in both brains and machines.

Read it on Long Now Ideas here: https://t.co/6qOMOM75Vg

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

[Tomorrow] Get ready! Entangled Intelligences hits the stage Tues 11/10. This is not a traditional Long Now Talk. Expect multimodal presentations, live music, immersive visuals — and many more surprises. 

This event is sold out, but you can tune in from anywhere in the world via the livestream: https://t.co/dpHlBSPXe6

Presented in partnership with the @templeton_fdn

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

@TheoryofMind1 @TempletonWorld Looking forward to seeing you there, Kat

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Long-time Long Now collaborator @JonathonKeats explores time beyond the human scale in “Chronotope,” a new group exhibition opening next week at Moderism. His piece, Arboreal Tempo, reconfigures a standard metronome to measure time at the vastly slower, deliberate pace of a tree.

If you are in the Bay Area, attend the opening reception to see it in person:
Thursday, Nov 12 | 6:00–8:00 PM
@ Modernism | 724 Ellis St, San Francisco https://t.co/XiZh6uYUmT

[🎭 @deepfates]

so excited for this! That's my article right there! Buy this book immediately!!

[Casey Cripe @CaseyCripe]

once again honored to be so intimately involved --
20 + instances of custom art for this issue,
3 full-color double-page spreads

[Eric Ries @ericries]

Honored to have my Long Now Talk featured in Issue 3 of Pace Layers, The Long Now Foundation’s annual journal of long-term thinking.

We explore what it takes to build institutions that endure beyond their founders, a question central to stewardship and long-term thinking.

Get it here: https://t.co/vaWr2lYLBr

[Denise Hearn @denisehearn_]

I recently hosted @blaiseaguera and @baratunde at @LongNow for a discussion on Interdependence.

From each of their unique vantages, we explored how we might move beyond what Blaise calls the "Cartesian wound," and colonial legacies of domination, to embrace a worldview rooted in mutual dependence, ecological stewardship, and belonging with both nature and technology.

Baratunde and Blaise approach AI not as a product or a neutral tool, but as a relationship that shapes our habits and our agency. They talk about how human intelligence has always been collective. And I ask them what it might mean to be human a hundred years from now.

It’s a conversation that’s generous in areas of agreement and generative when it diverges. It’s also something of an experiment for us: it’s going to feel a lot more like a lively back-and-forth between old friends in your living room, than it is a traditional Long Now Talk.

Enjoy: https://t.co/ToXJNuE61c

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Featuring an excerpt from the next installment of Maintenance: Of Everything by @stewartbrand

Long Now Talks by Bayo Akomolafe, @nayafia, @katecrawford, Melody Jue, @indy_johar, @ninamiolane & Claire Isabel Webb, @ericries, and Lynn Rothschild

Essays by Josh Berson, Samuel Butler, @deepfates, Amitav Ghosh, @grescoe, @EmilybyNight, and @jonathonkeats

Fiction by Andrew Dana Hudson

Poetry by @denisehearn_ and Gary Snyder

Art by @CaseyCripe, Isabella Kirkland, Katie Paterson, and Stefan Sagmeister

Photography by @chrismichel

It's a real beauty.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Issue 3 of Pace Layers, our print annual journal of long-term thinking, is out now. Get it here: https://t.co/MMVrERlDvi

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Listen on any podcast app: https://t.co/IUEuZ1fBAa

Thank you to all our members and supporters who make this episode ad-free and globally accessible. Every member receives two free tickets to Talks like this, join us: https://t.co/GlkyMOix4c

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

This expansive conversation between @baratunde and @blaiseaguera covered symbiogenesis, Copernican wounds, indigenous democracies, organic and synthetic intelligence, and how we protect our humanity and care for the collective in the age of AI.

Far reaching and heart-felt, this is a must-see.

Watch the episode on YouTube: https://t.co/P0BSq48Mzz

[Denise Hearn @denisehearn_]

So thrilled @ninabegus is leading our Epistemic Cycles Lab @longnow.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

How do we make the unfathomable scales of planetary and cosmic history tangible? Artist and Long Now Council member Katie Paterson has spent her career translating the vast dimensions of deep time into visceral experiences.

Her first solo exhibition in China, Across Deep Time, is now open at UCCA Dune in Aranya, and it is a triumph. The exhibition convenes 21 of her works showcasing everything from Earth’s deep past to beauty in the outer reaches of the cosmos. Here are a few of our favorites from the show, on view until April 02027.

Silva (2024) — a branch formed from the ashes of 10,000 tree species, condensing the enormity of the world's forests into a single, fragile object

Totality (2016) — 10,000 images of total solar eclipses, daguerreotypes to modern telescopic photography, each image made into a reflective facet on a giant mirror ball

Vapour (2026) — an atmospheric sculpture composed of 1,000 water sources from across the planet (ice cores, aquifers, monsoon rains) released as a shifting fog for visitors to breathe and inhabit

Congratulations Katie! More on the exhibition here: https://t.co/mmDm5aiLCE

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

An important discussion is happening around the death of the leap second: International metrologists voted to halt worldwide usage of the leap second convention and adopt a continuous atomic time scale instead. This will mean civil time will drift away from astronomical solar time by up to an hour over the centuries ahead.

The discussion brings long-term thinking, civilizational planning, and planetary-scale cooperation all to the forefront, which we love.

Farewell to the little leap second, and welcome to the future leap hour. It’s all a poetic reminder that human technology is still tethered to the messy, irregular, wobbly planet we all inhabit.

[Scientific American @sciam]

The leap second is no more. International timekeepers voted to end it today, which will allow Earth’s rotation and official time to fall farther out of alignment than ever before.

https://t.co/eKpyDPy05I

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

This is an outstanding essay on the nature and prospects of AI.

[Denise Hearn @denisehearn_]

A very Pace Layers adjacent essay