Long Now Foundation4 年
Mary Lou Jepsen - Toward Practical Telepathy
Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Openwater. Previously she was an engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google X, and Intel, as well as a founder of four startups. She has over 100 ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food
Agricultural biodiversity is as much in need of defending as the world's wildlife. Countless varieties of plants and animals were bred by the world's peoples for talents specific to every soil, ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times
As the times accelerate and we face ever more kaleidoscopic careers, a crucial meta-skill is the ability to learn new skills extremely rapidly, extremely well. That practice has no better exemplar and ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 7
Rick is founder of Prelinger Archives in San Francisco, whose moving image holdings may be found online at www.archive.org. Rick co-founded Prelinger Library (www.prelingerlibrary.org), a ...
Long Now Foundation6 年
Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
Jane Langdale is a Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, a Senior Research Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, and Principal Investigator on Phase III of the C4 ...
Long Now Foundation6 年
The Next 30 Digital Years
Since the mid-01980s Kevin Kelly has been creating, and reporting on, the digital future. His focus is the long-term trends and social consequences of technology. Kelly’s new book, THE INEVITABLE: ...
Long Now Foundation6 年
Birth of the Global Mind
“The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex ‘multicellular minds,‘" says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
Infrastructure and Climate Change
A MacArthur Fellow (02007), Griffith is founder and CEO of Otherlab in San Francisco. He previously co-founded Optiopia, Makani Power, Potenco, Instructables, Squid Labs, and HowToons. He writes a ...
Long Now Foundation6 年
The World's Oldest Living Organisms
Rachel Sussman is a fine art photographer with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She studied at the Bard College MFA program, and began a practice-based fine arts PhD at Central Saint ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
Genetic scientist Craig Venter is founder and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute, and co-founder and CEO of Synthetic Genomics INC. Venter's development of whole genome shotgun sequencing led ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050
Peter Leyden has spent his entire career figuring out the future, explaining what’s probably coming next, and helping envision how we could create a better world. He worked at the early Wired magazine ...