http://www.longnow.org/ en-us ℗ & © 2008 The Long Now Foundation The subscription URL is http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml . The Seminars About Long-term Thinking is a monthly speaking series produced by The Long Now Foundation and hosted by Stewart Brand. The series looks from many angles and backgrounds at the subject of long term thinking and responsibility. Examples of speakers in the series range from musician Brian Eno, author Bruce Sterling, anthropologist Jared Diamond, technologist Ray Kurzweil, geneticist Craig Venter, and game creator Will Wright. This series is supported by Long Now members who also get hi resolution video of the series and invites to special events. You can become a member at: http://members.longnow.org . This podcast is brought to you in partnership with FORA.tv. Visit the Long Now Foundation channel at http://fora.tv/partner/long_now_foundation for videos of many of these events. longnow, long now, brian eno, seminars, salt, stewart brand, hillis, clock, san francisco, long-term, spore, will wright The Long Now Foundation The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org http://media.longnow.org/files/2/longnow-podcast300x300_withStewartb.jpg http://www.longnow.org/ 144 144 no Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-08-08-suarez.mp3 78:01 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:00:00 -0800 The 10,000-year Gallery The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-07-23-burtynsky.mp3 76:41 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-06-27-ehrlich.mp3 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0800 76:41 The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-05-21-quadir.mp3 Wed, 21 May 2008 15:00:00 -0800 75:41 Quadir is the now-legendary founder of GrameenPhone, which transformed his home country of Bangladesh in the 1990s and led the way for the cellphone revolution throughout the developing world. Currently Quadir heads the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and is building Emergence BioEnergy Inc., a project to develop local electricity for the rural poor, using such devices as a fuel cell that runs on anaerobic bacteria. Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed. Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-04-28-ferguson_schwartz.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 100:56 http://blog.longnow.org/2008/04/30/niall-ferguson-peter-schwartz-historian-vs-futurist-on-human-progress/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-02-25-venter.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 109:23 http://blog.longnow.org/2008/02/26/craig-venter-joining-35-billion-years-of-microbial-invention/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:00:00 -0800 The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-02-04-taleb.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 87:57 http://blog.longnow.org/2008/02/07/nassim-nicholas-taleb-the-future-has-always-been-crazier-than-we-thought/ Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2008-01-11-saffo.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 85:31 http://blog.longnow.org/2008/01/14/paul-saffo-embracing-uncertainty-the-secret-to-effective-forecasting/ Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:00:00 -0800 At the Edge of Art http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-12-14-ippolito_blais.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 86:03 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/17/jon-ippolito-and-joline-blais-at-the-edge-of-art/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:00 -0800 Enduring Principles for Changing Times http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-11-09-kanter.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 80:58 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/11/12/principles-against-panic/ Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:00:00 -0800 Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-10-12-enriquez.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 89:22 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/10/13/juan-enriquez-mapping-life/ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:00:00 -0800 Power to Save the World http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-09-14-cravens_anderson.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 104:39 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/17/185/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:00:00 -0800 The Deep History of the Information Age http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-08-17-wright.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 93:13 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/08/19/alex-wright-the-deep-history-of-the-information-age/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:00:00 -0800 "The End of History" Revisited http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-06-28-fukuyama.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 72:39 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/06/29/francis-fukuyama-democracy-versus-culture/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:00:00 -0800 The New Great Transformation http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-06-08-hawken.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 71:45 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/06/09/paul-hawken-the-new-great-transformation/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:00:00 -0800 The Long Zoom http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-05-11-johnson.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 86:10 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/ Tue, 29 May 2007 18:00:00 -0800 We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-03-09-fagan.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 79:02 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/03/10/brian-fagan-catastrophic-drought-is-coming-back/ Mon, 7 May 2007 19:00:00 -0800 What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-02-15-vinge.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 90:55 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=401 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:00:00 -0800 Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2007-01-26-tetlock.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 73:07 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?p=675 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:00:00 -0800 Second Life: What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING? http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-11-30-rosedale.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 74:22 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?p=587 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0800 The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-11-03-fulton.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 74:22 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=235 Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0800 Zooming Out in Time http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-10-13-baez.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 87:12 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=238 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:00:00 -0800 China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term? http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-9-22-schell.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 88:53 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=207 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:00:00 -0800 John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, is a senior communications consultant to the White Houses and Departments of Defense. His subject in this talk is how to replace tactical, reactive response to terror with long-term strategic initative. http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-7-14-rendon.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 90:00 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=128 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:00 -0800 Will Wright and Brian Eno - Playing with Time Will Wright, creator of the video games "Sim City," "The Sims," and the forthcoming "Spore," will speak (with Brian Eno) on playing with time. http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-06-26-wright-and-eno.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 100:00 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=122 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:00:00 -0800 Chris Anderson with Will Hearst - The Long Time Tail A new economic principle is the "the long tail," discovered and named by the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson. The former dominance of best-sellers has been augmented by the new dominance of innumerable tiny-sellers, thanks to the Internet. Investor and publisher Will Hearst notes that there is a time dimension as well to the long tail phenomenon, still being discovered. http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-05-12-anderson.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 89:11 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=86 Fri, 12 May 2006 12:00:00 -0800 Jimmy Wales - Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embracing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, examines how vision drives and defines that project and its strategy--- and how it fits into the even larger world and prospects of "free culture." http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-04-14-wales.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 76:10 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=85 Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:00:00 -0800 Kevin Kelly - The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method. http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-03-10-kelly.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 78:40 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=64 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:00:00 -0800 Stephen Lansing - Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-02-13-lansing.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 79:21 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=42 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0800 Peter Schwartz and Ralph Cavanagh - Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2006-01-13-schwartz_cavanagh.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 102:22 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=41 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:00:00 -0800 Sam Harris - The View from the End of the World http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-12-9-harris.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 81:29 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=40 Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Clay Shirky - Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories Video avaliable on video.google.com "longnow.org" http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=longnow.org http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-11-14-shirky.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 96:30 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=39 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Freeman, George and Esther Dyson - The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-10-5-dysons.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 81:04 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=38 Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Ray Kurzweil - Kurzweil's Law http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-09-23-kurzweil.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 105:53 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=37 Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Robert W. Fuller - Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-08-12-fuller.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 61:31 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=36 Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Jared Diamond - How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed Video avaliable on video.google.com "longnow.org" http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=longnow.org http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-07-15-diamond.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 71:46 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=34 Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Robert Neuwirth - The 21st Century Medieval City http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-06-10-neuwirth.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 79:48 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=33 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Stewart Brand - Cities and Time http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-04-08-brand.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 81:14 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=31 Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Spencer Beebe - Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-03-11-beebe.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 75:39 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=30 Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Roger Kennedy - The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-02-25-kennedy.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 84:38 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=29 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:00:00 -0800 James P. Carse - Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2005-01-14-carse.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 87:11 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=28 Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Ken Dychtwald - The Consequences of Human Life Extension http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-12-03-dychtwald.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 124:22 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=27 Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Michael West - The Prospects of Human Life Extension http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-11-12-west.mp3 podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 84:10 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=26 Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Paul Hawken - The Long Green http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-10-15-hawken.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 79:28 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=25 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Danny Hillis - Progress on the 10,000-year Clock http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-09-10-hillis.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 66:50 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=24 Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Phillip Longman - The Depopulation Problem http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-08-13-longman.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 61:39 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=23 Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Jill Tarter - The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-07-09-tarter.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 81:11 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=22 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Bruce Sterling - The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-06-11-sterling.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 97:25 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=21 Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:00:00 -0800 David Rumsey - Mapping Time http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-05-14-rumsey.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 100:32 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=20 Fri, 14 May 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Daniel Janzen - Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening Video avaliable on video.google.com "longnow.org" http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=longnow.org http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-04-09-janzen.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 86:29 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=19 Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Rusty Schweickart - The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-03-12-schweickart.mp3 podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) The Long Now Foundation 91:56 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=18 Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:00:00 -0800 James Dewar - Long-term Policy Analysis http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-02-13-dewar.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 69:08 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=17 Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:00:00 -0800 George Dyson - There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2004-01-09-dyson.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 90:08 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=16 Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:00:00 -0800 Peter Schwartz - The Art Of The Really Long View http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2003-12-12-schwartz.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) 127:21 http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=14 Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:00:00 -0800 The Long Now http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2003-11-14-eno.mp3 The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org (The Long Now Foundation) http://s3.amazonaws.com/salt-recordings/salt-020031114-eno/salt-020031114-eno.mp3 77:18 Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:00:00 -0800