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Understanding Media Today - An intellectual history of Marshall McLuhan
My talk on Marshall McLuhan's life and ideas for @longnowldn.bsky.social is now up!
This was given at the Hundred Years Gallery last spring to celebrate the 60 year anniversary of his bestseller, Understanding Media.
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Loving that you're doing this! When we started our Thursday nights in London we were inspired by Friday nights at the Interval.
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Tickets now on sale for this year's coach trip from London to Rendlesham Forest on Saturday 28 December 2024. Book online at minimumlabyrinth.org. Possibly the most atmospheric, immersive experience we've ever created. A journey back in time to 1980. A pub lunch. And Britain's answer to Roswell.
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Diaspora (social network) - Wikipedia
Remember Diaspora?
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Long Now London
A community of practice for long-term thinking. Conversations about art, technology and deep time. Meeting in person on the second Thursday of every month.
02008: first Long Now London gathering (organised how?)
02010: Joined Meetup
02014: Joined Twitter
02018: Joined Instagram
02019: Basic website
02023: Moved events to Eventbrite
02023: longnowlondon.org becomes core hub for information.
02024: Moved events to Luma
02024: Joined Bluesky
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Director of long-term futures at Automattic. Builder of BattleBots, flame throwers, The 10,000 Year Clock and communities. Formerly at Long Now. More at https://rosefutures.com/
One agent in a complex and beautiful system.
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Long Now Foundation | Fellow, Berggruen Institute
Co-author Myth of Capitalism πΊπΈ and The Big Fix π¨π¦
www.denisehearn.com
Futures nerd. Brand and foresight strategist. Storyteller.
https://traversingfutures.co.uk/
The creative paroxysms of Robert Kingham and Rich Cochrane. Guided walks, books, films, audio dramas and journeys into the uncanny. http://minimumlabyrinth.org/
Experience Design Director, Multimedia Creative and co-organiser of @longnowldn.bsky.social. As of 2025, weekly musings on jamiestantonian.substack.com
Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu // The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Emmy-winning software dev, entrepreneur, scientist, sailor, jazz lover, vfx/film software guy, feminist, traveler. #longnowboston, #openfx, #emacs. More at https://oberbrunner.com
Long Now Boston encourages long-term awareness and responsibility on issues that shape a sustainable world for our descendants. https://longnowboston.org
Designer, urbanist &c. Director, Melbourne School of Design and Professor, University of Melbourne + Visiting Prof of Practice, UCL IIPP. Prev.: Vinnova (Swedish Gov innovation agency), Arup, Future Cities Catapult, SITRA (Finnish Innovation Fund), BBC
Poem/1 / Galactic Compass / Blogger / Sun Eater / interconnected.org
Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
Editor-in-Chief of Pace Layers, an annual print journal of essays, interviews, artwork, fiction, and poetry published by @longnow.org.
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Long-term thinking: @longnowldn.bsky.social
Spatial strategy and placecraft: www.polysemic.co.uk
Time, place & storytelling.
Dancing about architecture.
Sampling here. Mostly on Twitter still as @stewartbrand.