We couldn't bear the thought of a year without @footage's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. We're delighted to announce that the show will be returning for its 15th edition. This is an online event. RSVP to the film premiere here: eventbrite.com/e/lost-landsca…
While we can't gather in-person at The @Castro_Theatre, we're working hard to approximate the experience as best we can in digital space.
Rick will be joining us live on chat with the audience, so come prepared to identify places, people and events, to ask questions and to engage in spirited real-time repartee with fellow viewers.
While tickets are free, we encourage you to consider a donation in support of the Prelinger Library if you're able. Each year this show's ticket revenue brings in about 25% of the Prelinger Library's annual budget.
To donate, just add your support when you RSVP for this online movie premiere. 100% of your support of Lost Landscapes goes directly to the Prelinger Library: eventbrite.com/e/lost-landsca…
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#TBT: Long Now's first ever talk was given by co-founder @BrianEno back in 02003. It was titled, appropriately, "The Long Now." We were a couple of years away from a good A/V setup, but you can listen to the audio here: longnow.org/seminars/02003…
Co-founder @stewartbrand also wrote up a summary of the talk—something he'd continue doing for each Long Now Seminar for the next 15 years. Read it in the tweets below.
.@stewartbrand: Brian told the origins of his realizations about the "small here" versus the "big here" and the "short now" versus the "long now."
THREAD: A large part of Long Now’s work in 02020 focused on how to bring long-term thinking to a broader, more global audience. This Giving Season, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Long Now to help us continue this work: longnow.org/support/#LongNow02020
In April, we used the necessary suspension of large in-person gatherings to bring an even larger global audience together virtually—with free and open talks that continue today. #LongNow02020
In an effort to bring the quality our audience has come to expect from our in-person events, we transformed our Long Now talks into richly-produced multimedia storytelling experiences. #LongNow02020
We are saddened to hear of the passing of the groundbreaking theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson: nytimes.com/2020/02/28/sci…
In 02005, Dyson, his daughter @edyson, and son George Dyson appeared on stage together for the first time to discuss the difficulty of thinking far ahead.
@edyson When asked a question at the Seminar about death, Freeman Dyson replied: "The worst thing that could happen would be if doctors cured death. There would be no room for young people in power."