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Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
Apr 22 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
When astronauts see Earth from space, they experience a feeling of awe and awakening known as the "Overview Effect."

When we see images of the whole Earth from space, we can tap into some of that feeling of awe – and use it to make our planet a better place. The first Earth Day in 01970 was inspired by @NASA's release of the first human-captured photos of Earth from Space in 01968.

The organizers of Earth Day celebrations all over the planet used the image of our planet from space as symbol of unity: humanity, together.
The Earthrise photo, captured by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 01968 and known as the first human-taken photograph of Earth from its Moon.
The original 1969 version of the Earth Flag by John McConnell, with the simplified image of the Earth.
Jan 24 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
What economic myths constrain us, and what new stories can we tell to scaffold the future?

Watch now: A Long Now Talk from Denise Hearn on economic myths and how they shape our world. L: A photo of Denise Hearn. R: The text: Long Now Talks. Embodied Economies. Denise Hearn. Tuesday January 23 02024. 7:00 PM PT Good evening everyone!

Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Denise Hearn on Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World. youtube.com/live/qqlMUvZLd…
Jul 20, 2023 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
The Dead Sea scrolls are still readable 2 millennia after their creation — yet the expected shelf life of a DVD is just 100 years. Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades.

How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations? A digital document dissolves into a Dark Age. Illustration by Casey Cripe Adrienne Bernhard (@adrienneeve) takes a look into the challenge of preventing the Digital Dark Age to come, and at the organizations like the @InternetArchive, @GitHub, and @Permanentorg working to preserve data for generations to come. longnow.org/ideas/shining-…
Sep 21, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
From 02021-02022 @berggruenInst Fellow Johanna Hoffman: How Iceland's most devastating volcanic eruption helped create a civic mythology of resilience, adaptation and celebration of nature. longnow.org/ideas/02022/09… In 01783, Iceland burned.

The Laki volcano erupted and wrought devastation in the 218 square miles of lava it unleashed & the dire famine that came in its wake.

Yet this devastation left a legacy of hope, spurring Iceland towards an ethos of resiliency.
longnow.org/ideas/02022/09…
Mar 3, 2022 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight's Long Now Talk featuring Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Futures: Beyond 02022. Q&A follows with Kim Stanley Robinson and @ramez streamed live on YouTube at @ramez Long Now continues our dialogue with the acclaimed writer Kim Stanley Robinson around climate futures, his attendance of COP26 and his most recent book The Ministry for the Future. indiebound.org/book/978031630…
Feb 17, 2022 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Starting soon: Join us for a Long Now Talk with architect & designer Neri Oxman exploring her work in Material Ecology — the fusion of nature & technology. The talk will be followed by a conversation with Oxman and Long Now co-founder Danny Hillis. The live stream will begin shortly.
Dec 22, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Today is the December Solstice, the day on which the sun reaches its southernmost excursion on the celestial sphere. In the Northern hemisphere, where it marks winter's dawn, people have observed the solstice for 10,000 years. In a 02013 paper, a group of archaeologists found that the Warren Field site in Scotland served as a lunisolar calendar synchronized to the solstice. DOI:10.11141/ia.34.1
Nov 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
TONIGHT at 7 Pacific: Futurist @paragkhanna uncovers the deep trends that are shaping the future of human geography in his Long Now Talk: WHY MOBILITY IS DESTINY, premiering on Youtube: youtube.com/longnow In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the constant search for resources, stability and opportunity.
Dec 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Dec 3, 2020 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
#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.
Dec 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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 Image
Feb 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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.

You can watch their Long Now talk here: longnow.org/seminars/02005…