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Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
An image of The Interval, with a logo from San Francisco Magazine's Best of the Bay for 02025
A list of the Best of the Bay from San Francisco Magazine.
We're honored to announce that The Interval at Long Now has been named the Best Cocktail Bar in San Francisco by San Francisco Magazine.
Thank you to all of the dedicated bartenders & staff who have made The Interval into a one-of-a-kind gathering place, as well as all of our patrons.
A really beautiful Long Now insight:
"Fossil fuels are a transition phase, not something we want to or even can rely on indefinitely. Our civilisation is up and running, and now itβs time to throw the switch."
The Long Now Foundation is hiring! We are looking for a full-time Communications Manager, ongoing contract IT support, and a bartender at the interval!
Long Now is hiring! Come join our team and work with us to foster imagination at the timescale of civilization.
We're looking for a full-time Communications Manager, contract IT Support, and (starting in September) a Bartender at The Interval at Long Now.
Learn more: longnow.org/careers
The Long Now Foundation is seeking experienced IT support to meet both our ongoing operational needs and a range of upcoming project-based work. We are currently envisioning this as a contract role with opportunities for growth over time. Apply at longnow.org/careers
Ongoing IT Support β’ Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot our digital infrastructure β’ Manage onsite internet and security systems for a hybrid office and bar/cafe environment β’ Manage collaboration and productivity software support for a team of ~25 local and remote employees β’ Google Workspace management for an install base of ~50 active users making heavy use of Gmail, Drive, & Groups β’ Hubspot CRM platform maintenance β’ Long Now platform and vendor management β’ Advise and direct on 5-year IT plan around emerging technologies
β’ Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot our digital infrastructure β’ Manage onsite internet and security systems for a hybrid office and bar/cafe environment β’ Manage collaboration and productivity software support for a team of ~25 local and remote employees β’ Google Workspace management for an install base of ~50 active users making heavy use of Gmail, Drive, & Groups β’ Hubspot CRM platform maintenance β’ Long Now platform and vendor management β’ Advise and direct on 5-year IT plan around emerging technologies
Long Now is seeking experienced IT support to meet both our ongoing operational needs and a range of upcoming project-based work. We are currently envisioning this as a contract role with opportunities for growth over time.
Learn more & Apply at: longnow.org/careers
The Long Now Foundation is hiring a Communications Manager to help provide more people with deeper and more meaningful access to long-term thinking and civilizational-scale ideas. The Communications Manager will be Long Nowβs primary growth and marketing lead, and will use qualitative and quantitative impact metrics to support Long Nowβs mission of expanding meaningful access to long-term thinking. The Communications Manager will also write and edit material for Long Nowβs website and digital communications platforms, translating complex, long-term ideas into accessible and compelling narratives. The Communications Manager role is a full-time, hybrid role based in San Francisco. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and reside within the U.S. with a preference for California-based employees. Apply at longnow.org/careers
Key Duties: Platform & Channel Stewardship β Lead and grow Long Nowβs outreach across all of our platforms, producing and publishing events, posts, photos, videos, interviews, podcasts, and other campaigns on a consistent schedule. Maintain our brand and voice across platforms, aligning messaging with Long Nowβs mission and values. Edit writing contributed by staff, board, and other members of the community. Translate complex, long-term ideas into accessible and compelling narratives. Campaign Development & Coordination β Plan and execute strategic growth campaigns around events, episodes, launches, announcements, membership, and fundraising that expand our community and move audiences from general awareness to deeper engagement. Community Development & Listening β Engage directly with Long Nowβs audience through email, comments, DMs, and mentions, building lasting relationships with the broader long-term thinking community. Cultivate relationships with aligned individuals and organizations to foster cross-promotion and shared growth. Measurement & Reporting β Track performance across channels to refine content and strategy. Track CRM data to target key audience segments for values-aligned growth campaigns. Define and report on key metrics, providing leadership with valuable insights.
The Long Now Foundation is hiring a Communications Manager to help provide more people with deeper and more meaningful access to long-term thinking and civilizational-scale ideas.
Interested? Apply at longnow.org/careers
What if AI is not here actually to replace us, but to remind us who we actually are?
Kim Carson's Long Now Talk: Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era makes the case for AI as a way to emphasize humanity's most important creative capacities.
Watch: youtu.be/hYzPqAPFHzs
Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals that trees are part of a complex, interdependent circle of life π³ππβ¨
youtu.be/ydbzrun3opk @longnow.org #science #mycology #ecology (Mother Trees and the Social Forest)
What is Life?
In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker (@saraimari.bsky.social) explores the fundamental nature of life and how can physics help shape our understanding of how it arises in the universe.
Full talk here: youtu.be/zhzxQraB2m0?...
Artificial Intelligence tools can help researchers crack some of the hardest problems in deciphering ancient languages βΒ but these tools only work in concert with human ingenuity and expertise.
@taras-grescoe.com on the ancient codes that AI can't crack: longnow.org/ideas/the-co...
this talk was so fun!! a very thoughtful exploration of a big, weird question, featuring at least one reference to madonna
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What is Life?
In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker (@saraimari.bsky.social) explores the fundamental nature of life and how can physics help shape our understanding of how it arises in the universe.
Full talk here: youtu.be/zhzxQraB2m0?...
Read our full interview with @christophermichel.com here: longnow.org/ideas/christ...
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Michel will hold this appointment concurrently with his Artist-in-Residence position at the
@nationalacademies.org, where he uses photography in his "New Heroes" series to highlight the work of leading scientists, engineers, and medical professionals explorers.com?ref=longnow....
The Orrery at The Interval. Photo by Christopher Michel
Biosphere 2 at dusk. Photo by Christopher Michel
Christopher Michel's photography captures Long Now Talks speakers. Clockwise from top left: Sara Imari Walker, Benjamin Bratton, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Stephen Heintz.
As Long Nowβs Artist-in-Residence, Michel will create a body of work inspired by our mission, expanding his exploration of time through portraiture, documentary photography, and large-scale visual projects.
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Christopher Michel in the cockpit of a U-2 spy plane, 70,000 ft above the earth. Photo by Christopher Michel.
Three Glaciers Camp Three Glaciers Camp in the deep field of Antarctica, with a Basler BT-67 aircraft parked on the snow runway. This remote outpost, nestled amid towering peaks and endless ice, supports scientific and exploratory missions as part of the 2023 Union Glacier expedition. Photo by Christopher Michel.
At the 10,000-year clock. Photo by Christopher Michel.
In 02018, Christopher Michel gave a Long Now Talk at The Interval on Terra Incognita: Exploring the Earth's Most Remote Places. Photo by Gary Wilson.
The Long Now Foundation is proud to announce Christopher Michel as its first Artist-in-Residence.
Through his photography, @christophermichel.com has captured both the worldβs most renowned scientists & long-term thinkers as well as our planetβs natural landscapes. longnow.org/ideas/christ...
What does building a more abundant future look like β and how can long-term thinking help?
In their Long Now Talk, @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social discuss the failures of contemporary governance and how we fix them with @michaelpollan.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9wg...
Ancient bristlecone pines have been collecting data for us for millennia.
Scientists like Long Now Research Fellow Anne Heggli (@driscience.bsky.social) work to build a long-term scientific legacy among these ancient trees. longnow.org/ideas/long-s...
Ancient bristlecone pines have been collecting data for us for millennia.
Scientists like Long Now Research Fellow Anne Heggli (@driscience.bsky.social) work to build a long-term scientific legacy among these ancient trees. longnow.org/ideas/long-s...
The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners.
Read @johnwlast.bsky.social on the tensions within sainthood: longnow.org/ideas/saints...
Thanks for reading! We also recommend Vincent Ialenti's book, Deep Time Reckoning. longnow.org/ideas/how-lo...
05.05.2025 16:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Loving the latest Pace Layers journal from the @longnow.org This article hit home to me on the small bits of reflection we all can do to better appreciate our place in this world. Worth a read. longnow.org/ideas/deep-t...
03.05.2025 12:57 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson say we live in an βAge of Turbulence.β
In their new Long Now Talk, they discuss βA Logic For The Futureβ β a new path for international relations in the face of the chaos of our current age.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO7e...
Hi! We've temporarily stopped international shipping until we figure a more sustainable long-term solution. We'll let you know when international orders are back open. Thanks for asking!
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Photographed Dr. Larry Brilliant at @longnow.org in San Francisco, a fitting place for someone who helped eradicate smallpox and has spent his life blending science, service, and foresight. A reminder that real brilliance serves others.
Full story: glass.photo/cm/F1IQRFmjf... @nationalacademies.org
Kim Carson and The Long Now share some thoughts about creativity, AI, and intelligence:
What if AI isn't here to replace us but to remind us who we are?
www.youtube.com/live/cpCkB80... #ai @longnow.org
What if AI isnβt here as replacement or overlord, but to remind us of who we are and what is possible?
Starting in 45 minutes: a Long Now Talk from Kim Carson on Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpCk...
The Long Now diagram, featuring three timelines: the "now" (3 days), "nowadays" (30 years), and "the long now" (20,000 years)
55 years on, we hope you take this Earth Day as a chance to consider your place in both the Big Here β our planet and all living things on it β and the Long Now: generations past and those yet to come.
What can you do in order to be a good ancestor? longnow.org/ideas/the-bi...
An ad in the New York Times reading: April 22. Earth Day. A disease has infected our country. It has brought smog to Yosemite, dumped garbage in the Hudson, sprayed DDT in our food, and left our cities in decay. Its carrier is man. The weak are already dying. Trees by the Pacific. Fish in our streams and lakes. Birds and crops and sheep. And people. On April 22 we start to reclaim the environment we nave wrecked April 22 is the Environmental Teach-In, a day of environmental action. Hundreds of communities and campuses across the country are already committed. It is a phenomenon that grows as you read this. Earth Day is a commitment to make life better, not just bigger and faster; To provide real rather than rhetorical solutions. It is a day to re-examine the ethic of individual progress at mankind's expense. It's a day to challenge the corporate and governmental leaders who promise change, but who short change the necessary programs It is a day for looking beyond tomorrow. April 22 seeks a future worth living. April 22 seeks a future. We are working seven days a week to help communities plan for April 22. We have come from Stanford, Harvard, Bucknell, lowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Michigan and other campuses. We are a non-profit, tax exempt, educational organization. Our job is to help groups and individuals to organize programs to their communities. Earth Day is being planned and organized at the local level. In each community people are deciding for themselves the issues upon which to focus, and the activities which are most appropriate. We can help, but the initiative must come from each community. We have heard from hundreds of campuses and local communities in all fifty states. Dozens of conservation groups have offered to help. So have the scores of new breed environmental organizations that are springing up every day. Big names don't save the environment. People do. Help make April 22 burgeon. For you. For us. For our children.
Long-term thinking has always been a key part of Earth Day.
On the first Earth Day, the New York Times ran an ad saying that the holiday was "a day for looking beyond tomorrow."
Two years before NASA released those first images of Earth from space, Long Now Co-founder Stewart Brand asked a single question that would prove epochal:
"Why Havenβt We Seen A Photograph of the Whole Earth?"
Read more from @med.bsky.social : longnow.org/ideas/whole-...
The Earthrise photo, captured by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 01968 and known as the first human-taken photograph of Earth from its Moon.
The original 1969 version of the Earth Flag by John McConnell, with the simplified image of the Earth.
Fifty-five years ago today, the first Earth Day in 01970 was inspired by NASA's release of the first human-captured photos of Earth from Space in 01968.
The organizers of Earth Day celebrations all over the planet used the image of our planet from space as symbol of unity: humanity, together.
