Chris Anderson with Will Hearst: The Long Time Tail
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - May 12, 2006
Chris Anderson defines the exact shape of the still emerging opportunity space for finding and selling formerly unfindable and unsellable items of every imaginable description.
John Baez: Zooming Out in Time
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - October 13, 2006
The graphs we see these days, John Baez began, all look vertical — carbon burning shooting up, CO2 in the air shooting up, global temperature shooting up, and population still shooting up. How can we understand what really going on?
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - October 13, 2009
Brand argues that taking account of the emerging global forces of climate change, urbanization, and biotechnology forces a rethink of some traditional environmental positions.
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-Year Gallery
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - July 23, 2008
Burtynsky's massively informative photographs change minds and influence policy. Their historical value will grow with time. He presents his plan for a 10,000-year Gallery to accompany the 10,000-year Clock.
Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - August 17, 2009
The Smithsonian's Secretary Wayne Clough spells out the Institution prospects — including the long-term future of science and education.
Gwyneth Cravens with Rip Anderson: Power to Save the World
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 14, 2007
The best introduction to the current realities and benefits of nuclear power is Cravens book
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy.
Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - January 13, 2010
The Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic speaks on hanging out with traditional peoples and exploring their religious practices.
Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 12, 2008
The X Prize contest founder explores what might be prize-worthy with a hundred-year or thousand-year goal.
David Eagleman: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - April 1, 2010
Neuroscientist and author Eagleman spells out how to save the world.
Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - June 6, 2008
Ehrlich explores whether cultural evolution really does show patterns that would yield predictive theory.
Drew Endy vs. Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - November 17, 2008
Endy and Thomas debate the question: Is synthetic biology reckless or wise from the perspective of "the long now?"
Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - October 12, 2007
Enriquez examines how we image and imagine what we are exploring, and thus image and imagine exploration itself.
Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages, Lost Knowledge and the Future
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - March 20, 2009
Everett proposes a revolution in anthropology and linguistics: culture profoundly shapes language, even at the most fundamental level.
Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - April 28, 2008
Historian Ferguson and futurist Schwartz disagree on the nature of human progress. Both regard history as highly contingent. The question is, contingent on what?
Francis Fukuyama: "The End of History" Revisited
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - June 28, 2007
Fukuyama examines conflict with and within Islam, the need for a diffuse form of global governance to deal with problems.
Katherine Fulton with Richard Rockefeller and Larry Brilliant: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - November 3, 2006
Philanthropy across the board is in the midst of intense, potentially revolutionary, transition. There's new money, new leaders, new rules, new technology, and new needs.
Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 14, 2009
Ganson uses humble materials to create kinetic sculptures, and his work has been an ongoing inspiration for the 10,000 Year Clock project at Long Now.
Frank Gavin: Five Ways to Use History Well
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - July 12, 2010
Gavin shows how historians can improve policy decisions by bringing the perspectives of history, chronological proportionality, unintended consequences, and recognizing the limits of policy.