Monica L. Smith is an archaeologist whose principal research interests are the human interaction with material culture, urbanism as a long-term human phenomenon, and the development of social ...

Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan is a Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. Her latest book is Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. No ...

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, lecturer, and author focusing on contemplative end-of-life care. His book is The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. It’s a ...

Below is an essay by a founding board member Stewart Brand on the need for, and the mechanism by which, The Long Now Foundation is attempting to encourage long-term thinking. Civilization is revving ...

One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, ...

Sean Carroll is a Research Professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research has focused on fundamental ...

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 ...

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom ...

Raoul Adamchak, who teaches organic farming at UC Davis, is a former president of the Board of California Certified Organic Farmers and was a partner in a commercial organic farm called Full Belly. He ...

The epitome of long-term thinking is to take seriously the protection of the Earth from massive asteroid impacts, which in the past have extincted as much as 90% of life on Earth. On Friday, March 12, ...

Jesse Schell is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CEO of Schell Games, and author of The Art of Game Design. Formerly he was chair of the International Gems Developers ...