# Long Now

A podcast by The Long Now Foundation. The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Explore hundreds of lectures and conversations from scientists, historians, artists, entrepreneurs, and more through The Long Now Foundation's award-winning Long Now Talks, started in 02003 by Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand (creator of the Whole Earth Catalog). Past speakers include Brian Eno, Neal Stephenson, Jenny Odell, Daniel Kahneman, Suzanne Simard, Jennifer Pahlka, Kim Stanley Robinson, and many more. Watch video of these talks at https://longnow.org/talks

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## Latest episodes

- [Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, & Adam Csank: Art & Science at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/181cecbac81f) (2026-10-08, 54 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-heggli-keats-csank-podcast-v2.mp3
- [(From the archive) Jonathon Keats: Envisioning Deep Time](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/fcaeaa0a143f) (2026-09-14, 54 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020260914-archive-keats-podcast.mp3
- [Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/0096674dcf50) (2026-05-20, 73 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-akomolafe-podcast-v3.mp3
- [Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane: The Geometry of Consciousness](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/f69c6972ca8c) (2026-05-20, 51 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-webb-miolane-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Eric Ries: Incorruptible by Design](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/942c63ef1ccf) (2026-04-30, 71 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-ries-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Melody Jue: Ocean Memory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/c3a1012c0ab3) (2026-04-09, 64 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-jue-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/f4b2f60b4ee3) (2026-03-12, 69 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-sagmeister-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/a218d986ed01) (2026-02-12, 68 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-johar-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/f221fb03b2d1) (2025-12-11, 76 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02025-crawford-podcast-v3.mp3
- [Lynn Rothschild: Nature’s Hardware Store](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/7cb36c1fa75b) (2025-11-05, 77 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02025-rothschild-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/70c041e6645a) (2025-10-09, 75 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02025-aguera-y-arcas-podcast.mp3
- [Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/9a82f162cb6d) (2025-06-13, 49 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250422-carson-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/f2812ee17db6) (2025-05-29, 71 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250401-walker-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Abundance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/42aaeff610fc) (2025-05-16, 60 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250327-Klein-Thompson-podcast-v02.mp3
- [Kim Stanley Robinson & Stephen Heintz: A Logic For The Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/1e742383540d) (2025-05-01, 58 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250319-robinson-heintz-podcast-v2.mp3
- [K Allado-McDowell: On Neural Media](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/47ed0b7193da) (2025-04-10, 58 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250225-allado-mcdowell-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Ahmed Best: Feel The Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/43714874f995) (2025-03-28, 60 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250214-best-podcast-v1.mp3
- [Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/5d072a696b24) (2025-03-20, 58 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250129-bratton-podcast-v2.mp3
- [Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth: What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/bed6a78bb769) (2024-12-11, 53 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020241122-raworth-krznaric-podcast-v1.mp3
- [Neal Stephenson: Polostan](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/0b7d6233d529) (2024-11-14, 57 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020241016-stephenson-podcast-v1.mp3
- [Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/981f5e93860c) (2024-05-01, 51 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020240312-quante-escott-podcast-v1.mp3
- [Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/cb190fd1d45b) (2024-04-19, 56 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020240206-cordero-podcast.mp3
- [Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/4afb08626d71) (2024-03-07, 57 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020240123-hearn-podcast.mp3
- [Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/87b8860cd106) (2023-12-22, 0 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020231114-farmer-podcast.mp3
- [Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/0ead27670a76) (2023-11-21, 56 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020231010-smith_rumsey-podcast.mp3
- [Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/e3be88745002) (2023-11-16, 60 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020230926-farrell-podcast.mp3
- [Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/75b4a64d4adf) (2023-10-19, 32 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020230912-krumme-podcast.mp3
- [Chelsea T. Hicks & Bette Adriaanse: Radical Sharing](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/17545e8ced8c) (2023-10-10, 57 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020230822-adriaanse-podcast.mp3
- [Anthropocene Magazine: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/1f607178ba50) (2023-06-28, 65 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020230512-climate_parables-podcast.mp3
- [Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/07bd5251916b) (2023-06-20, 65 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020230404-phelan-podcast.mp3
- [Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/e37fc3a9387b) (2023-06-15, 56 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/interval-020230418-chambers_newitz-podcast.mp3
- [Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/f8f24370e72f) (2023-04-14, 62 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020230307-odell-podcast.mp3
- [Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/5180f1fd1b9f) (2023-03-21, 59 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/interval-020230214-ali-podcast.mp3
- [Ryan North: How to Invent Everything](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/c2295c7cd328) (2023-02-28, 0 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020230131-north-podcast.mp3
- [Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/3118eef79513) (2023-02-24, 58 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020210518-rogers-podcast.mp3
- [Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/7ccdc1e95541) (2023-02-17, 66 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020211109-khanna-podcast.mp3
- [Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/c4e15da28ff0) (2023-02-10, 51 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020210712-otchere-podcast.mp3
- [Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/347271c8e20a) (2023-01-27, 56 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020210629-davis-podcast.mp3
- [Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/6ccfeb9606ab) (2023-01-20, 57 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020221012-hoffman-podcast.mp3
- [Kate Darling: The New Breed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/c892f7846503) (2023-01-13, 55 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020210810-darling-podcast.mp3
- [Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/b1a3facf55cc) (2023-01-05, 60 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020210615-simard-podcast.mp3
- [Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/c0aecad7dce2) (2022-12-15, 47 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020221103-eggert-podcast.mp3
- [Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/c3319ecaade7) (2022-10-06, 61 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020220927-haidt-podcast.mp3
- [Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/f0357864cb6b) (2022-08-16, 60 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020220720-tubbs-podcast.mp3
- [Edward Slingerland: Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/47333bf9a1e0) (2022-07-26, 66 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/interval/redirect/interval-020220614-slingerland-podcast.mp3
- [Creon Levit: Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/546f5c8687bb) (2022-06-14, 57 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/interval/redirect/interval-020220426-levit-podcast.mp3
- [Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/5187476750c7) (2022-05-18, 57 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020220404-clark-podcast.mp3
- [Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/5b4d6b92febf) (2022-04-27, 68 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020220302-robinson-podcast.mp3
- [John Markoff & Stewart Brand: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/865e6148760d) (2022-04-27, 63 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020220322-markoff-podcast.mp3
- [Prerna Singh: State, Society and Vaccines](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455/b9f63a105b07) (2022-03-25, 54 min): audio https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020210727-singh-podcast.mp3

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