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02018
02017
Upcoming Seminars
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
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
02011
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6 02011 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge 02011 library, books, Internet, digital, knowledge
Laura Cunningham: Ten Millennia of California Ecology 02011 ecology, climate change, environment, paleontology, California
Timothy Ferriss: Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times 02011 psychology, wellness, education
Geoffrey B. West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster 02011 Energy, Environment, Sustainability,
Peter Kareiva: Conservation in the Real World 02011 Climate Change, Sustainability, Environment
Carl Zimmer: Viral Time 02011 Natural Sciences, Environment, Health & Wellness
Tim Flannery: Here on Earth 02011 Climate Change, Sustainability, History, Environment
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules - For Now 02011 History, Conflict, Globalization, International Relations
Alexander Rose: Millennial Precedent 02011 Design, Architecture, Future, Engineering, Longevity
Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism 02011 Sustainability, Personal Technology, History, Environment, Economic Policy
Mary Catherine Bateson: Live Longer, Think Longer 02011 Education, Health & Wellness, Social Issues, Sustainability
Philip K. Howard: Fixing Broken Government 02011 Economic Policy, History, Entrepreneurship,
02010
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5 02010 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Organisms 02010 Environment, Natural Sciences, Sustainability
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought 02010 globalization, international relations, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Stewart Brand, Jane McGonigal: Long Conversation 19 of 19 02010 Entertainment, globalization, Social Issues
Jane McGonigal, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 18 of 19 02010 Ineternet, Social Issues
Paul Hawken, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 17 of 19 02010 Internet, New Media, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Katherine Fulton, Paul Hawken: Long Conversation 16 of 19 02010 Environment, Journalism, Philanthropy, Social Issues
Stuart Candy, Katherine Fulton: Long Conversation 15 of 19 02010 Philanthropy, Social Issues
Stuart Candy, Danese Cooper: Long Conversation 14 of 19 02010 Education, Internet, New Media
Danese Cooper, Peter Schwartz: Long Conversation 13 of 19 02010 Education, Internet, New Media, Social Issues
Peter Schwartz, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 12 of 19 02010 Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Ken Foster, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 11 of 19 02010 Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences
Melissa Alexander, Ken Foster: Long Conversation 10 of 19 02010 Arts Education Internet
Melissa Alexander, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 9 of 19 02010 Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Issues
John Perry Barlow, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 8 of 19 02010 Internet, New Media, Philanthropy
John Perry Barlow, Violet Blue: Long Conversation 7 of 19 02010 Health & Wellness, Internet, Journalism, Social Sciences
Violet Blue, Robin Sloan: Long Conversation 6 of 19 02010 Internet, New Media, Social Sciences
Robin Sloan, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 5 of 19 02010 Internet, Natural Sciences, New Media, Social Sciences
Emily Levine, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 4 of 19 02010 Education, Entertainment, Natural Sciences
Saul Griffith, Emily Levine: Long Conversation 3 of 19 02010 Climate Change, Entertainment, Environment, Social Issues
Jem Finer, Saul Griffith: Long Conversation 2 of 19 02010 Climate Change, Energy, Entertainment, Music
Stewart Brand, Jem Finer: Long Conversation 1 of 19 02010 Environment, Music, Social Issues
Nineteen Speakers: Long Conversation 02010 Education, Entertainment, Natural Sciences, New Media
Richard Rhodes: Twilight of the Bombs 02010 Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy
Martin Rees: Life's Future in the Cosmos 02010 Environment, Social Issues, Sustainability
Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse 02010 New Media, Personal Technology
Frank Gavin: Five Ways to Use History Well 02010 History, U.S. Foreign Policy
Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade 02010 Energy sustainabilty
Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization 02010 globalization, Social Issues
David Eagleman: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization 02010 History, Internet, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Beth Noveck: Transparent Government 02010 Entrepreneurship, Internet, law, Personal Technology, Social Issues, White House 2009 // adopt a dataset!
Alan Weisman: World Without Us, World With Us 02010 Environment, members only, Social Issues
Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Alexander Rose: Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference 02010 Economic Policy, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Sustainability
Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World 02010 books, History, Social Sciences
02009
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4 02009 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Sander van der Leeuw: The Archaeology of Innovation 02009 Climate Change, History, Sustainability
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green 02009 Climate Change, Energy, Environment
Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time 02009 Arts
Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever 02009 Climate Change, Environment, History, Natural Sciences // 18' astro sonification (cf. Sound of the Universe) // “History does not repeat itself – but it does rhyme.”
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Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future 02009 Environment, food, Social Issues, Sustainability
Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application 02009 Economic Policy, emerging markets, globalization
Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture 02009 Environment, food, Social Issues, Sustainability
Gavin Newsom: Cities and Time 02009 Climate Change, Energy, Environment, food, Sustainability
Daniel Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future 02009 History, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices 02009 Economic Policy, Social Issues, Sustainability
Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated 02009 Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Sustainability
02008
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 02008 culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Drew Endy, Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate 02008 Health & Wellness, Natural Sciences, Social Issues
Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale 02008 Energy Environment Sustainability
Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes 02008 Entrepreneurship Sustainability
Neal Stephenson: ANATHEM Book Launch Event 02008 Arts books Entertainment
Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus): Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality 02008 Arts, books, Entertainment, Internet, New Media, Personal Technology
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery 02008 Arts
Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment 02008 Energy, Environment, Social Sciences, Sustainability
Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest 02008 emerging markets, globalization, Social Issues
Niall Ferguson, Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress 02008 Conflict, History, Social Issues
Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention 02008 Energy, Natural Sciences, Social Issues
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought 02008 books, Credit Crunch, Economic Policy
Paul Saffo: Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting 02008 Computing, Personal Technology, Social Issues, Social Sciences
02007
Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito: At the Edge of Art 02007 Arts
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times 02007 Philanthropy, Social Issues
Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge 02007 Arts History
Rip Anderson, Gwyneth Cravens: Power to Save the World 02007 Energy Environment Sustainability Terrorism
Alex Wright: Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages 02007 History, Social Issues
Francis Fukuyama: 'The End of History' Revisited 02007 Economic Policy, History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation 02007 History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom 02007 Health & Wellness, Healthcare, Personal Technology, Social Issues
Frans Lanting: Life's Journey Through Time 02007 Arts, History, Social Issues
Brian Fagan: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change 02007 History, Social Sciences, Sustainability
Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? 02007 Issues Social
Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs 02007 History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
02006
Philip Rosedale: 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING? 02006 Entertainment Internet
Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy 02006 Philanthropy, Social Issues
John Baez: Zooming Out in Time 02006 Energy Environment History
Orville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term? 02006 History
John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short 02006 Social Issues, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy
Brian Eno, Will Wright: Playing with Time 02006 Music, Personal Technology
Chris Anderson, Will Hearst: The Long Time Tail 02006 Internet, Personal Technology
Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture 02006 Internet, Social Issues
Kevin Kelly: The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method. 02006 Energy, History, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences
Stephen Lansing: Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali 02006 Energy, Environment, History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
Ralph Cavanagh, Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years 02006 Energy, Environment, Social Issues, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy
02005
Sam Harris: The View from the End of the World 02005 Religion, Social Issues
Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories 02005 Internet, Personal Technology
Esther Dyson, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson: The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead 02005 Social Issues, Sustainability
Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law 02005 History, Social Issues
Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future 02005 History, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed 02005 History, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Robert Neuwirth: The 21st Century Medieval City 02005 Energy, Environment, Social Issues
Will Jarvis: Time Capsule Behavior 02005 History,
Stewart Brand: Cities & Time 02005 History, Social Issues Slides
cf. mprove_ Hyper-Chronoskop. Betrachtungen zu Zeit und Design
Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry 02005 Environment, Social Issues, Sustainability
Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD 02005 Energy, Environment, History, Social Issues
James Carse: Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game 02005 Religion, Social Issues
02004
Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences of Human Life Extension 02004 Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Michael West: The Prospects of Human Life Extension 02004 Health & Wellness, Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Paul Hawken: The Long Green 02004 Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Sustainability
Danny Hillis: Progress on the 10,000-year Clock 02004 Entrepreneurship, History, Personal Technology
Phillip Longman: The Depopulation Problem 02004 Issues Social
Jill Tarter: The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy 02004 Issues Social
Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole 02004 Computing, Social Issues
David Rumsey: Mapping Time 02004 Arts History Slides
/cf. Chrono Research Lab
Daniel Janzen: Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening 02004 Environment, Social Issues, Sustainability
Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years 02004 Religion, Social Issues
James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis 02004 Issues Social
George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing 02004 Computing Entrepreneurship History Slides
02003
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