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Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

225 episodes

Explore hundreds of lectures by scientists, historians, artists, entrepreneurs, and more through The Long Now Foundation's award-winning lecture series, curated and hosted by Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand (creator of the Whole Earth Catalog). Recorded live in San Francisco each month since 02003, past speakers include Brian Eno, Neil Gaiman, Sylvia Earle, Daniel Kahneman, Jennifer Pahlka, Steven Johnson, and many more. Watch video of these talks and learn more about our projects at Longnow.org. The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility.

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Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees

Published: Dec. 22, 2023, 8:33 p.m.
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Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 12:27 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 37 seconds

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Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 8:26 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 3 seconds

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Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization

Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 5:28 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds

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Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks: Radical Sharing

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 12:33 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 32 seconds

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: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future

Published: June 28, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 57 seconds

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Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

Published: June 20, 2023, 10:28 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds

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Becky Chambers, Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia

Published: June 15, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 58 seconds

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Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Published: April 14, 2023, 11:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds

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Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads

Published: March 21, 2023, 11:17 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 2 seconds

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Ryan North: How to Invent Everything

Published: March 1, 2023, 12:09 a.m.
Duration: N/A

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Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception

Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 7:31 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 34 seconds

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Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny

Published: Feb. 18, 2023, 12:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 54 seconds

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Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces: A Psychology of Music and Work

Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 11:56 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 58 seconds

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Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology

Published: Jan. 27, 2023, 11:34 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 36 seconds

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Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need

Published: Jan. 20, 2023, 11:48 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 49 seconds

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Kate Darling: The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future

Published: Jan. 13, 2023, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 29 seconds

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Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest

Published: Jan. 5, 2023, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 43 seconds

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Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future

Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 1:38 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 28 seconds

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Stewart Brand, Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History

Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 7:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute

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Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All

Published: Aug. 16, 2022, 4:18 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 39 seconds

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Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world

Published: May 18, 2022, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 28 seconds

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Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022

Published: April 27, 2022, 5:21 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 8 seconds

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John Markoff: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

Published: April 27, 2022, 4:33 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 7 seconds

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Prerna Singh: State, Society and Vaccines

Published: March 25, 2022, 10:05 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 1 second

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Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life

Published: March 2, 2022, 8:54 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 58 seconds

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Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock

Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 10:03 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 52 seconds

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Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 44 seconds

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David Rooney: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 39 seconds

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Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the Worlds Longest-lived Organizations

Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 7 seconds

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Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 7:13 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 8 seconds

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Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050

Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 5:49 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 49 seconds

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Jason Tester: Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 7:32 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 28 seconds

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James Nestor: The Future of Breathing

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 12:23 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Nadia Eghbal: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 5 seconds

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Roman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 40 seconds

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Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 9:39 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 50 seconds

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Genevieve Bell: The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 6:27 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds

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Craig Childs: Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America

Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 32 seconds

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Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet: Ecology, Community, and Growth Through the Next Century

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 4:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 9 seconds

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Lonny J Avi Brooks: When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures

Published: July 27, 2020, 7:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 16 seconds

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Brian Fisher: Edible Insects: Where Land Conservation and Protein Meet

Published: July 15, 2020, 11:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 seconds

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Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Published: June 23, 2020, 4:50 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 30 seconds

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Rick Doblin: Transformational Psychedelics

Published: June 11, 2020, 10:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 40 seconds

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Eric Ries: Long-Term Stock Exchange

Published: March 3, 2020, 7:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 9 seconds

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Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 6 seconds

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Andrew McAfee: More From Less

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 10:46 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 46 seconds

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Suhanya Raffel: World Art Through The Asian Perspective

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 7:12 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 22 seconds

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Monica L. Smith: Cities: The First 6,000 Years

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 47 seconds

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Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 9:07 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 14 seconds

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Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Value

Published: July 12, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 37 seconds

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David Byrne: Good News & Sleeping Beauties

Published: June 21, 2019, 7:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 26 seconds

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Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me

Published: May 17, 2019, 5:29 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 47 seconds

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Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come

Published: April 8, 2019, 7:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 36 seconds

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Chip Conley: The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace

Published: March 20, 2019, 9:59 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 10 seconds

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John Brockman: Possible Minds

Published: March 13, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 2 seconds

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Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity

Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 8:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 36 seconds

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Stewart Brand: Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration

Published: Dec. 14, 2018, 11:11 p.m.
Duration: 2 hours 26 seconds

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Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 16 seconds

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Mary Lou Jepsen: Toward Practical Telepathy

Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 11:35 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 57 seconds

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Julia Galef: Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 11:28 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 45 seconds

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Juan Benet: Long Term Info-structure

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 12 seconds

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George P. Shultz: Perspective

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 12:27 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 1 second

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Chris D. Thomas: Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event?

Published: June 26, 2018, 10:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 44 seconds

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Benjamin Grant: Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope

Published: May 30, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 59 seconds

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Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?

Published: May 1, 2018, 5:17 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 1 second

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Steven Pinker: A New Enlightenment

Published: March 20, 2018, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 18 seconds

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Michael Frachetti: Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road

Published: March 9, 2018, 10:16 p.m.
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Charles C. Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 11:47 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene

Published: Dec. 29, 2017, 10:11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 2 seconds

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Renee Wegrzyn: Engineering Gene Safety

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 15 seconds

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David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands

Published: Sept. 20, 2017, 2:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 40 seconds

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Nicky Case: Seeing Whole Systems

Published: Aug. 17, 2017, 9:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 32 seconds

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Carolyn Porco: Searching for Life in the Solar System

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 29 seconds

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James Gleick: Time Travel

Published: June 26, 2017, 10:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 32 seconds

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Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real

Published: June 9, 2017, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 1 second

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Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo: Pace Layers Thinking

Published: June 9, 2017, 4:35 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 47 seconds

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Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace

Published: May 24, 2017, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 6 seconds

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Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living

Published: April 11, 2017, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 31 seconds

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Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid

Published: March 14, 2017, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 1 second

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Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In

Published: Feb. 2, 2017, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 50 seconds

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Steven Johnson: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 39 seconds

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Douglas Coupland: The Extreme Present

Published: Nov. 2, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 5 seconds

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David Eagleman: The Brain and The Now

Published: Oct. 5, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 6 seconds

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Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City

Published: Sept. 21, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 12 seconds

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Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality

Published: Aug. 10, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 48 seconds

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Kevin Kelly: The Next 30 Digital Years

Published: July 15, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 52 seconds

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Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live By

Published: June 21, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 32 seconds

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Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

Published: May 3, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 47 seconds

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Priyamvada Natarajan: Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Published: April 12, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 43 seconds

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Jane Langdale: Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond

Published: March 15, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Stephen Pyne: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep

Published: Feb. 10, 2016, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 37 seconds

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Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed

Published: Jan. 12, 2016, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Philip Tetlock: Superforecasting

Published: Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 1 second

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James Fallows: Civilization's Infrastructure

Published: Oct. 7, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 24 seconds

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Saul Griffith: Infrastructure and Climate Change

Published: Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 43 seconds

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Sara Seager: Other Earths. Other Life.

Published: Aug. 11, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 39 seconds

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Ramez Naam: Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity

Published: July 23, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 52 seconds

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Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last

Published: June 10, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 6 seconds

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Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth

Published: May 12, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 15 seconds

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Michael Shermer: The Long Arc of Moral Progress

Published: April 15, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 26 seconds

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Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy

Published: April 1, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 34 seconds

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David Keith: Patient Geoengineering

Published: Feb. 18, 2015, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 39 seconds

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Jesse Ausubel: Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities

Published: Jan. 14, 2015, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 16 seconds

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Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound

Published: Nov. 13, 2014, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Larry Harvey: Why The Man Keeps Burning

Published: Oct. 21, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 24 seconds

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Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution

Published: Sept. 17, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 9 seconds

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Anne Neuberger: Inside the NSA

Published: Aug. 7, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 17 seconds

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Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects

Published: July 17, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 25 seconds

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Stefan Kroepelin: Civilizations Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara

Published: June 11, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 26 seconds

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Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys: Oceanic

Published: May 21, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 3 seconds

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Tony Hsieh: Helping Revitalize a City

Published: April 23, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 38 seconds

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Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths

Published: March 25, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 22 seconds

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Brian Eno, Danny Hillis: The Long Now, now

Published: Jan. 22, 2014, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 17 seconds

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Richard Kurin: American History in 101 Objects

Published: Nov. 19, 2013, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 36 seconds

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Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth

Published: Oct. 16, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 52 seconds

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Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming

Published: Sept. 18, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 30 seconds

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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow

Published: Aug. 14, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 32 seconds

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Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth

Published: July 30, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 33 seconds

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Ed Lu: Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them

Published: June 19, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Stewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species

Published: May 22, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Nicholas Negroponte: Beyond Digital

Published: April 18, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 32 seconds

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George Dyson: No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up

Published: March 20, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 23 seconds

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Chris Anderson: The Makers Revolution

Published: Feb. 20, 2013, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island

Published: Jan. 18, 2013, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 38 seconds

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Peter Warshall: Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth

Published: Nov. 29, 2012, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 47 seconds

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Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment

Published: Nov. 14, 2012, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 19 seconds

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Steven Pinker: The Decline of Violence

Published: Oct. 9, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 33 seconds

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Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind

Published: Sept. 6, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 6 seconds

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Elaine Pagels: The Truth About the Book of Revelations

Published: Aug. 21, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 32 seconds

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Cory Doctorow: The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer

Published: Aug. 1, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 30 seconds

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Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World

Published: June 6, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Susan Freinkel: Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Published: May 23, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 12 seconds

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Charles C. Mann: Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years

Published: April 24, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 44 seconds

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Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth

Published: April 21, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 47 seconds

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Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene

Published: March 7, 2012, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 34 seconds

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Jim Richardson: Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food

Published: Feb. 23, 2012, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 23 seconds

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Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It

Published: Jan. 18, 2012, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 33 seconds

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Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6

Published: Dec. 9, 2011, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 5 seconds

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Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge

Published: Dec. 1, 2011, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 42 seconds

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Laura Cunningham: Ten Millennia of California Ecology

Published: Oct. 18, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 15 seconds

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Timothy Ferriss: Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times

Published: Sept. 15, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 6 seconds

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Geoffrey B. West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster

Published: July 26, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 2 seconds

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Peter Kareiva: Conservation in the Real World

Published: June 28, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 40 seconds

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Carl Zimmer: Viral Time

Published: June 8, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 39 seconds

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Tim Flannery: Here on Earth

Published: May 4, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 47 seconds

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Ian Morris: Why the West Rules - For Now

Published: April 14, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 36 seconds

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Alexander Rose: Millennial Precedent

Published: April 6, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds

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Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism

Published: March 23, 2011, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 8 seconds

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Live Longer, Think Longer

Published: Feb. 10, 2011, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 46 seconds

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Philip K. Howard: Fixing Broken Government

Published: Jan. 19, 2011, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 27 seconds

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Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5

Published: Dec. 17, 2010, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 26 seconds

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Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Organisms

Published: Nov. 16, 2010, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 3 seconds

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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

Published: Oct. 27, 2010, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 38 seconds

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Stewart Brand, Jane McGonigal: Long Conversation 19 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 3:44 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds

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Jane McGonigal, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 18 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 3:25 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds

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Paul Hawken, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 17 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 3:06 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 13 seconds

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Katherine Fulton, Paul Hawken: Long Conversation 16 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 2:47 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds

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Stuart Candy, Katherine Fulton: Long Conversation 15 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 2:28 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds

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Stuart Candy, Danese Cooper: Long Conversation 14 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 2:09 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 43 seconds

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Danese Cooper, Peter Schwartz: Long Conversation 13 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds

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Peter Schwartz, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 12 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 1:31 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds

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Ken Foster, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 11 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 1:12 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 36 seconds

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Melissa Alexander, Ken Foster: Long Conversation 10 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 12:53 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds

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Melissa Alexander, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 9 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 12:34 a.m.
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John Perry Barlow, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 8 of 19

Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds

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John Perry Barlow, Violet Blue: Long Conversation 7 of 19

Published: Oct. 16, 2010, 11:57 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds

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Violet Blue, Robin Sloan: Long Conversation 6 of 19

Published: Oct. 16, 2010, 11:38 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 34 seconds

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Robin Sloan, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 5 of 19

Published: Oct. 16, 2010, 11:19 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds

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Emily Levine, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 4 of 19

Published: Oct. 16, 2010, 11 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds

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Saul Griffith, Emily Levine: Long Conversation 3 of 19

Published: Oct. 16, 2010, 10:41 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds

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Jem Finer, Saul Griffith: Long Conversation 2 of 19

Published: Oct. 16, 2010, 10:22 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 36 seconds

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Stewart Brand, Jem Finer: Long Conversation 1 of 19

Published: Oct. 16, 2010, 10:03 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 46 seconds

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Martin Rees: Life's Future in the Cosmos

Published: Aug. 3, 2010, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse

Published: July 28, 2010, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 55 seconds

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Frank Gavin: Five Ways to Use History Well

Published: July 13, 2010, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 57 seconds

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Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade

Published: June 17, 2010, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 42 seconds

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Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization

Published: May 4, 2010, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 40 seconds

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David Eagleman: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

Published: April 2, 2010, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 43 seconds

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Beth Noveck: Transparent Government

Published: March 5, 2010, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 55 seconds

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Alan Weisman: World Without Us, World With Us

Published: Feb. 25, 2010, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Alexander Rose: Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference

Published: Feb. 1, 2010, 8 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 30 seconds

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Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Published: Jan. 14, 2010, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 12 seconds

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Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4

Published: Dec. 5, 2009, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 45 seconds

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Sander van der Leeuw: The Archaeology of Innovation

Published: Nov. 19, 2009, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 41 seconds

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Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green

Published: Oct. 10, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 10 seconds

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Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time

Published: Sept. 15, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 12 seconds

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Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever

Published: Aug. 18, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 31 seconds

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Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future

Published: July 29, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 35 seconds

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Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application

Published: May 19, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 21 seconds

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Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture

Published: May 6, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds

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Gavin Newsom: Cities and Time

Published: April 9, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 18 seconds

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Daniel Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future

Published: March 21, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 2 seconds

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Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices

Published: Feb. 14, 2009, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 seconds

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Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated

Published: Jan. 17, 2009, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 10 seconds

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Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

Published: Dec. 20, 2008, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes

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Drew Endy, Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate

Published: Nov. 18, 2008, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 17 seconds

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Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale

Published: Oct. 4, 2008, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 17 seconds

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Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes

Published: Sept. 13, 2008, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 1 second

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Neal Stephenson: ANATHEM Book Launch Event

Published: Sept. 9, 2008, 7 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds

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Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality

Published: Aug. 9, 2008, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 1 second

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Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery

Published: July 24, 2008, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 41 seconds

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Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment

Published: June 28, 2008, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 31 seconds

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Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest

Published: May 22, 2008, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 41 seconds

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Niall Ferguson, Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress

Published: April 29, 2008, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 56 seconds

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Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention

Published: Feb. 26, 2008, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 23 seconds

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought

Published: Feb. 5, 2008, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Paul Saffo: Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting

Published: Jan. 12, 2008, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 32 seconds

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Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito: At the Edge of Art

Published: Dec. 15, 2007, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 3 seconds

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times

Published: Nov. 10, 2007, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 58 seconds

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Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge

Published: Oct. 13, 2007, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 22 seconds

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Rip Anderson, Gwyneth Cravens: Power to Save the World

Published: Sept. 15, 2007, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 39 seconds

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Alex Wright: Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages

Published: Aug. 18, 2007, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 13 seconds

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Francis Fukuyama: 'The End of History' Revisited

Published: June 29, 2007, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 39 seconds

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Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation

Published: June 9, 2007, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom

Published: May 12, 2007, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 10 seconds

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Frans Lanting: Life's Journey Through Time

Published: April 28, 2007, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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Brian Fagan: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change

Published: March 10, 2007, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 2 seconds

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Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?

Published: Feb. 16, 2007, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 55 seconds

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Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs

Published: Jan. 27, 2007, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 7 seconds

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Philip Rosedale: 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?

Published: Dec. 1, 2006, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 22 seconds

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Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy

Published: Nov. 4, 2006, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 22 seconds

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John Baez: Zooming Out in Time

Published: Oct. 14, 2006, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 12 seconds

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Orville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?

Published: Sept. 23, 2006, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 53 seconds

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John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short

Published: July 15, 2006, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Brian Eno, Will Wright: Playing with Time

Published: June 27, 2006, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes

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Chris Anderson, Will Hearst: The Long Time Tail

Published: May 13, 2006, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 11 seconds

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Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture

Published: April 15, 2006, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 10 seconds

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Kevin Kelly: The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.

Published: March 11, 2006, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 40 seconds

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Stephen Lansing: Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali

Published: Feb. 14, 2006, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 21 seconds

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Ralph Cavanagh, Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years

Published: Jan. 14, 2006, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 22 seconds

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Sam Harris: The View from the End of the World

Published: Dec. 10, 2005, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 29 seconds

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Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories

Published: Nov. 15, 2005, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 30 seconds

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Esther Dyson, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson: The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead

Published: Oct. 6, 2005, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 4 seconds

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Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law

Published: Sept. 24, 2005, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 53 seconds

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Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future

Published: Aug. 13, 2005, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 31 seconds

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Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed

Published: July 16, 2005, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 46 seconds

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Robert Neuwirth: The 21st Century Medieval City

Published: June 11, 2005, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 48 seconds

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Stewart Brand: Cities & Time

Published: April 9, 2005, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 14 seconds

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Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry

Published: March 12, 2005, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 39 seconds

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Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD

Published: Feb. 26, 2005, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 38 seconds

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James Carse: Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game

Published: Jan. 15, 2005, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 11 seconds

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Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences of Human Life Extension

Published: Dec. 4, 2004, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes 22 seconds

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Michael West: The Prospects of Human Life Extension

Published: Nov. 13, 2004, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 10 seconds

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Paul Hawken: The Long Green

Published: Oct. 16, 2004, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 15 seconds

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Danny Hillis: Progress on the 10,000-year Clock

Published: Sept. 11, 2004, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Phillip Longman: The Depopulation Problem

Published: Aug. 14, 2004, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 39 seconds

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Jill Tarter: The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy

Published: July 10, 2004, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 11 seconds

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Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole

Published: June 12, 2004, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 25 seconds

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David Rumsey: Mapping Time

Published: May 15, 2004, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 32 seconds

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Daniel Janzen: Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening

Published: April 10, 2004, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 29 seconds

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Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years

Published: March 13, 2004, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 56 seconds

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James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis

Published: Feb. 14, 2004, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 8 seconds

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George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing

Published: Jan. 10, 2004, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 8 seconds

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Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View

Published: Dec. 13, 2003, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 21 seconds

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Brian Eno: The Long Now

Published: Nov. 15, 2003, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 18 seconds

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