Long Now Foundation
Instead of acting out of rigidity and division, Akomolafe says, we can make the biggest difference on the world's largest problems by gathering intergenerational knowledge.
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Akomolafe describes Ìdòwú in the Yoruba cosmology and how it relates to our narrow ideas for time. Through his post-activism lens, he illustrates how our “fixes” often reproduce the problem, and of...
Researchers mapped the collective activity of neurons in humans and AIs, and the shape converged on the torus. Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? Nina Miolane, Assistant Professor...
What an incredible season of Talks at Long Now! In case you missed it, we heard from Melody Jue on ocean memory, Nina Miolane on the geometry of consciousness, Eric Ries on incorruptibility, Stefan...
In his Talk, poet-philosopher Bayo Akomolafe presented a riveting critique of linear time, and gave a persuasive invitation to step sideways, to slow down, to notice the cracks in our temporal syst...
How do the binary electronic signals of neurons give rise to subjective experience? Mathematician and machine learning researcher Nina Miolane joined science historian Claire Isabel Webb to explore...
“Start with the thing you have the most agency over," Eric Ries says. "You can decide the purpose of your work.” We built this system, he urged, so we can rebuild it better.
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Most companies operate under the rule of shareholder primacy, a framework that prioritizes short-term financial gains above the needs of employees, customers, and the planet. Why are all businesses...
What if we redefined “profit” as maximizing human flourishing? Eric Ries has seen the corrosive effects of shareholder primacy at every company he’s worked with. Mission-driven companies, however, ...
To better translate the ocean's memories, scholar Melody Jue worked with interdisciplinary artists, musicians, and divers to develop soundscapes that help us “smell” with our ears.
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The ocean is not empty. It is a vast storage facility of memory agents. Ocean organisms use the chemical signatures of seawater for memory and intelligence in ways we can barely imagine. In her Tal...
How and why things are getting better (not worse), on a global scale, and why nostalgia can trick us into thinking it’s not, from Stefan Sagmeister’s Long Now Talk.
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A decade in the making, 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦 is a monumental artwork by artist and conceptual philosopher Jonathan Keats, commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art in p
What is consciousness — and how might we describe it scientifically? Neuroscience can map neural activity with extraordinary detail, yet the relationship between electrical signals and subjective e...
In his Long Now Talk, "Finally, something good," acclaimed designer Stefan Sagmeister urges us to zoom out. The faster the news cycle spins, the more we scroll, and the more we catastrophize. Meanw...
This talk is co-presented by Ayin Press, publisher of Akomolafe's next book, Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader. Akomolafe will be hosted by Eden Pearlstein, cofounder of Ayin Press.
Temporal dropping...
The world is terrible, and the world is better, Stefan Sagmeister said. Both can be true.
It all depends on perspective. In his Long Now Talk, Finally, something good, Sagmeister urged us to zoom ...
Architect and philosopher Indy Johar reframes our limitation as possibility, opening us up to more curiosity and “ways of being that are about tenderness, tentativeness, and care.”
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Planetary consciousness, Indy Johar says, comes with new responsibility. The task before us is not simply to survive, but to reimagine civilization as a planetary project.
Indy Johar is an acclai...
While the corporation, profit maximization, and financial systems feel immutable, all of our commercial and civic infrastructure is invented by us — and it can be reinvented. Eric Ries, building on...