Long Now Seminars @mprove

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02018

Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 13 (02018)
>> 4K upscaled video fo 1906
>> Chrono CityTour: San Francisco 1859-1905

02017

Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid 02017
Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In 02017
Steven Johnson: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World 02017 play, creativity, innovation, civilization, history, culture, cosmopolitan, international, mechanization, mechanical

Upcoming Seminars

Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living 02010 New Media, Personal Technology
Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace 02017
James Gleick: Time Travel 02017
Carolyn Porco: Searching for Life in the Solar System 02017
Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene 02017

02016

Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 11 02016
Douglas Coupland: The Extreme Present 02016 time, culture, perception, generation x, microserf, bit rot
David Eagleman: The Brain and The Now 02016 neuroscience, perception, technology, science, cognition, time, Stewart Brand, Danny Hillis, behavior
Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City 02016 cities, urbanization, technology, complexity, resilience, pragmatism, government, governance, culture, urban planning, history, archaeology
Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality 02016 quantum computing, universe, physics, MIT, quantum communication, optimization, programming
Kevin Kelly: The Next 30 Digital Years 02016 technology, future, Wired, becoming, cognifying, flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, interacting, tracking, questioning, beginning, late, inevitable, trend, artificial intelligence, smartness, opportunity, sharing economy
Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live By 02016 Computer Science, Behavior Science, algorithms, decision, optimism, regret, computational kindness, explore, exploit, optimal, artificial intelligence
Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control 02016 marshmallow, psychology, self-control, success, gratification, delay, behavior, emotional intelligence
Priyamvada Natarajan: Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy 02016 black hole, dark energy, dark matter, cosmos, universe, science, galaxies, astrophysics, space, Hubble Space Telescope, lensing, telescopes, space-time
Jane Langdale: Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond 02016 Carbon fixing, rice, photosynthesis, Gates Foundation, climate change, agriculture, food crops, genetics, bioengineering, IRRI, food security
Stephen Pyne: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep 02016 fire, anthropocene, climate change, environment, land management, Nature Conservancy
Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed 02016 Bronze Age, civilization, collapse, networked, society, Sea Peoples, Ancient Egypt, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, tin, copper, bronze, shipwreck, clay tablet, refugee, drought, famine

02015

Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 10 02015 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Philip Tetlock: Superforecasting 02015 forecasting, prediction, judgement, geopolitical, Kahneman, politics
Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real 02015 Mars, The Martian, space, colonizing, orbital mechanics, solar system, manned spaceflight, astronaut, biology, terraforming
James Fallows: Civilization's Infrastructure 02015 civilization, long-term thinking, infrastructure, society, hard infrastructure, soft infrastructure, invest, emergency, stealth, story, cities, high-speed rail, pragmatism
Saul Griffith: Infrastructure and Climate Change 02015 climate change, long-term thinking, infrastructure, society, cities, bicycle, innovation, education, local, maker movement, design tools, adoption curve, optimism
Sara Seager: Other Earths. Other Life. 02015 exoplanets, planetary science, telescope, starshade, atmosphere, Kepler, astrophysics, habitable range, spectrographic
Ramez Naam: Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity 02015 biotech, medicine, disease, digital connectivity, viral video, empathy, ethics, brain science, artificial intelligence, digital divide, smartphones
Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last 02015 Gaiman, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Stewart Brand, stories, myth, oral tradition, terracotta warriors, Sandman, American Gods
Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth 02015 mammoth,passenger pigeon, heath hen, black-footed ferret, elephant, genetic engineering, cloning, CRISPR, paleogenomics, ancient DNA, de-extinction, genetic rescue, keystone species, endangered, conservation, tundra, permafrost
Michael Shermer: The Long Arc of Moral Progress 02015 morality, science, justice, enlightenment, religion, reason, Steven Pinker, skeptic, civil liberties, democracy, market economy
Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy 02015 creator, maker, forecasting, futurist, economic theory, robot, culture, disruption, invention, engagement, brautigan
David Keith: Patient Geoengineering 02015 climate, climate change, geoengineering, carbon dioxide, emissions, global warming, sulfur, stratosphere
Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo: Pace Layers Thinking 02015 long-term thinking, responsibility, pace layers, civilization, shearing layers, societal tiers, balance, resilience, fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, nature
Jesse Ausubel: Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities 02015 environment, dematerialization, Ocean, statistics, peak farmland, decarbonize, aquaculture

The Interval

Rumsey Map Collection preview event | David Rumsey, 25-Aug-02015
/cf. Chrono Research Lab

02014

Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 9 02014 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound 02014 technology, noosphere, technium, evolution, holosphere, Anthropocene, Internet, super-organism, planetary, web, Wired
Larry Harvey: Why The Man Keeps Burning 02014 Burning Man, festival, community, regionals, radical, ritual, secular, sacred, philosophical center, culture, cultural legacy, Larry Harvey, Alexander Rose
Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution 02014 Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering, iGem, BioBricks, MIT, DNA, transcriptor, genomes, open source, biotech
Anne Neuberger: Inside the NSA 02014 security, Snowden, social contract, intelligence community, counterterrorism, government, private sector, technology, surveillance, Internet, transparency
Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects 02014 future, futurism, forecasting, gamification, artifact, object, neuroscience, zombies, history
Stefan Kroepelin: Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara 02014 climate change, paleoclimatology, Sahara, desert, prehistoric, core sample, rock art, Egypt, civilization, pharaonic, Chad, nomadic
Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys: Oceanic 02014 oceans, environment, currents, coral reef, mola, marine protected area, oceanographer, photosynthesis, bioluminescence, robot, conservation,National Geographic Explorer, microbe
Tony Hsieh: Helping Revitalize a City 02014
Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths 02014
Colonel Matthew Bogdanos: The Unlooting of Civilization’s Treasures in Wartime Iraq 02014
Brian Eno, Danny Hillis: The Long Now, now 02014 podcast

02013

Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 8 02013 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Richard Kurin: American History in 101 Objects 02013
Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth 02013 science, Space, starship, Technology, space exploration, futurism, Mars, Curiosity Rover, sky crane, seven minutes of terror, Earth
Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming 02013 science, Space, starship, interstellar, Technology, space exploration, futurism, scenario planning, galactic civilization
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow 02013 behavioral economics, prospect theory, intuition, fast thinking, slow thinking, nobel prize
Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth 02013 apocalypse, climate change, adventure, environment, glaciers, desertification, geology, genetic engineering
Ed Lu: Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them 02013 science, asteroid, Sentinel, B612, astronauts, space, gravity tractor, Chelyabinsk, Tunguska, B612 Foundation
Stewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species 02013 extinction, de-extinction, Genomics, genes, technology, revive, species, mammoth, passenger pigeon
Nicholas Negroponte: Beyond Digital 02013 technology, laptop, media lab, education, digital
George Dyson: No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up 02013 digital universe, time, acceleration, computer history, evolution, technology, big data
Chris Anderson: The Makers Revolution 02013 technology, entrepreneurship, emerging markets, globalization, engineering, maker, makerbot, maker faire, 3d printing, drones, cad
Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island 02013 Easter Island, Rapa Nui, environment, sustainability, anthropology, statues, moai

02012

Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 7 02012 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Peter Warshall: Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth 02012 natural sciences, arts, color, evolution, light, bioluminescence, spectrum, twilight
Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment 02012 culture, history, philanthropy, philosophy, anthropology, Pantheon, underground, preservation
cf. Untergunther | Pantheon user's guide | Urban Resources: Untergunther
Steven Pinker: The Decline of Violence 02012 politics, history, violence, social issues, conflict, social sciences, humanitarianism, peace, democratization
Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind 02012 technology, globalization, Internet, collective intelligence, gift culture, crowd-sourced, artificial intelligence
Elaine Pagels: The Truth About the Book of Revelations 02012 culture, religion, history, revelations, gnostic gospels, conflict, Rome, bible
Cory Doctorow: The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer 02012 technology, security, copyright, net neutrality, freedom, open source, surveillance, hacking
Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World 02012 politics, democratization, public policy, globalization, cities, mayors, urbanization
Susan Freinkel: Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story 02012 environment, sustainability, policy, plastics, recycling, bioplastic, green chemistry, disposable
Charles C. Mann: Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years 02012 environment, history, globalization, sustainability, Columbus, invasive species, trade, slave trade
Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth 02012 evolutionary biology, ants, altruism, eusocial, kin selection
Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene 02012 environment, climate change, sustainability, policy, planetary boundaires, ocean acidification, ozone, earth systems
Jim Richardson: Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food 02012 seeds, food, agriculture, animals, photography, National Geographic
Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It 02012 law, public policy, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, Danny Hillis, congress, constitution