We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
invited to dream up this catalog. A few months before the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for Spaceflight was won, he delivered a talk at the Long Now Foundation on the topic of “where next”—that is, where, beyond the space frontier, the XPRIZE Foundation should aim their future incentive prizes for maximum benefit
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
/08/against-political-freedom/. 95. Yarvin, “A Formalist Manifesto.” CHAPTER 10: SILICON VALLEY COLONIALISM 1. Paul Romer, “A Theory of History, with an Application,” The Long Now Foundation, May 18, 2009, https://longnow.org/seminars/02009/may/18/theory-history-application/. 2. Paul Romer, “Escape from the Great Distress,” Issues in Science and
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by Meredith Broussard · 19 Apr 2018 · 245pp · 83,272 words
graduate student named Danny Hillis showed up to Minsky’s house with a radiation detector in his pocket. (Hillis, a supercomputer inventor, now runs the Long Now Foundation with Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; the foundation is devoted to building a mechanical clock that will run for ten thousand years in a
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–160 Libraries, 96–97 Lightoller, Charles, 116 Lincoln, Abraham, 78 LinkedIn, 158 Linux, 24–25 Lipton, Zachary, 114 Literacy, technological, 21 Long, Milton, 117–118 Long Now Foundation, 73 Lord, Walter, 117–119 Loughner, Jared Lee, 19 Lovelace, Ada, 76 LSD, 81 Lucas, George, 70 Machine intelligence, determining, 37–38 Machine language, 24
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
-term view of time in our culture, in 1998 a group of scientists, artists, and business people in the San Francisco Bay area established The Long Now Foundation to promote an alternative conception of time based upon two main questions: “How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult
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. Linux living standards Lizzio, James R. Llerena, P. Lo, C. P. Lo, Fu-chen location: culture; electronics; employment; hightechnology; industry; see also place; space London Long Now Foundation Lorenz, E. Los Angeles Lovins, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lozano, Beverly Lukasiewicz, J. Lynch, Kevin Lynch, Ray Lyon, David Lyon, Jeff Macdonald, Stuart McGowan
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words
Over by Machines of Loving Grace (San Francisco: Communication Company, 1967). 30. Quoted in Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 128. 31. “Bio… Stewart Brand,” The Long Now Foundation, http://sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/Bio.html. 32. Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 135. 33. Michael Schrage, “Hacking Away at the Future,” Washington Post
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg · 2 Jan 2006 · 394pp · 118,929 words
news headlines for something entirely different: He entered into a Long Bet about the prospects for artificial intelligence. Long Bets were a project of the Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit organization started by Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand and a group of digital-age notables as a way to spur discussion and
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chronicled at http://www.longbets.org/1. “radical transformation of the reality”: Kurzweil described his vision of the Singularity in a talk hosted by the Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, September 23, 2005. Video of the event is at http://video.google.com/video play?docid=610691660251309257. “in the short term we always
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underestimate”: Kurzweil, Long Now Foundation talk. “As humans: We are embodied.”: Kapor’s essay accompanying the Long Bet is at http://www.longbets.org/1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book could not
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
by Stewart Brand · 15 Mar 2009 · 422pp · 113,525 words
. Brand, whose previous books include The Media Lab, How Buildings Learn, and The Clock of the Long Now, is the president and cofounder of The Long Now Foundation and cofounder of Global Business Network. He lives with his wife, Ryan Phelan, on a tugboat in San Francisco Bay. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the
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Hillis came up with an idea to help people think long-term by building a monumental ten-thousand-year clock, I responded by cofounding The Long Now Foundation with him in 1996. “Fostering long-term responsibility” is its mission. The “long now” is defined as the last ten thousand years and the next
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lodged in America’s political throat ever since the project was initiated in 1978. That had nothing to do with why the board of The Long Now Foundation made a site visit in 2002. We just wanted to see what a hole in a Nevada mountain looked like. Long Now’s maypole project
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of a Cell, The (Thomas) Living with Chernobyl (Vinton) Lomborg, Bjørn London, England London, Martin London: The Biography (Ackroyd) Long Emergency, The (Kunstler) Longman, Phillip Long Now Foundation Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Angeles Times Losey, John Love, Stanley Lovelock, James genetic engineering and geoengineering and nuclear power and Lovins, Amory genetic engineering
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature
by Ben Mezrich · 3 Jul 2017
of a revolution, and no less a tech luminary than Steve Jobs had once likened it to “Google in print.” Brand’s current project, the Long Now Foundation, was no less ambitious. A philanthropic think tank, which Brand had created with computer scientist Danny Hillis, Long Now’s goal was to look forward
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climate change and, 113–14 conservation and, 91–93, 95, 108, 269, 271–72 elephant herd visited by, 206–11 and herpes in elephants, 211 Long Now Foundation of, 91 “Mammoth Plus” by, 269–72 passenger pigeons and, 92–93, 95, 270 physical appearance of, 88, 203 Pleistocene Park and, 116 resurrecting Mammoths
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, 10, 13, 15, 31, 111, 113 Pleistocene Park and, 114–15 Zimov’s manifesto and, 118 liver, 124–25, 128, 130–31, 170, 243–44 Long Now Foundation, 91 Luhan Yang, see Yang, Luhan Lyme disease, 232–37 M McDonald, Stewart, 26, 36, 46 malaria, 19 avian, 271–72 genetically enhanced mosquitoes and
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
thinking of the slow/fast dichotomy and its impact on society. It would be a perspective that would become instrumental in the formation of the Long Now Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting long-term thinking. Mike Brand had counseled his brother not to focus on selecting individual courses but rather to find
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project. Eventually, they moved their headquarters from the Presidio to nearby Fort Mason, another converted military outpost. They settled on the Long Now Foundation, given concerns that if they called it simply Long Now Foundation, it might be assumed that it was the family foundation of a Chinese gentleman. Early on, the Long Now board met
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,000-acre tract he was buying in Texas, bounded by the Sierra Diablo Mountains, the least occupied region of the United States. Bezos offered the Long Now Foundation land and underwrote the construction of the clock, beginning in 2005. In 2009, construction began on a massive version of the instrument inside a 6
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the stroke of midnight at the turn of the new millennium in 2000, a crowd of thirty people gathered in the combined offices of the Long Now Foundation and Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive. By now the Presidio’s residential housing had been converted to upscale rentals for the dot-com workforce. For
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of multimedia and then e-commerce activity—was awash in enthusiasm for technology-centric ideas for changing the world. That zeal was reflected in the Long Now Foundation’s expanding focus. The challenge was to figure out ways to get beyond dependence upon philanthropy, to come up with unique ideas that would produce
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revenue. Initially, Brand thought that he had come up with a brilliant moneymaking scheme to support the Long Now Foundation. “Long Bets” grew out of an impromptu workshop debate between Peter Schwartz and Amory Lovins’s wife, Hunter, over how quickly electric cars would be
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executive editor at Wired, got the magazine involved in the idea. That in turn brought in the lawyers, who pointed out that if the nonprofit Long Now Foundation became a bookie by taking a cut on the bets, the Internal Revenue Service would certainly frown on the idea. Eventually, Long Bets found its
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] Quickly realizing that she did not feel comfortable working with the WebMD executives who had acquired her company, she departed and began working with the Long Now Foundation. There she cofounded and eventually became chief executive of the All Species project, Kevin Kelly’s idea to create a compendium of all the species
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as well. It is that realization that is the heart of Stewart Brand’s contribution and his continuing relevance. Revive & Restore was launched as a Long Now Foundation project in early 2012 after Brand and Phelan sponsored a small symposium at the Harvard Medical School, hosted by geneticist George Church, called Bringing Back
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. Brand as a thirty-year-old had a different outlook on the world than he did three decades later when he and Hillis formed the Long Now Foundation. The idea of a library capable of persisting across many generations, which Brand brought to the project, is at its heart the concept of creating
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clock of the Long Now, housed in a five-hundred-foot-tall cylindrical space hollowed out inside the mountain thanks to the largesse of the Long Now Foundation’s largest benefactor, Jeff Bezos, one of the world’s richest people. The first version of the clock was nearing completion. With Hillis, Brand entered
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Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words
addressing how people live on through everyday digital objects. Those with power and wealth can establish not just digital legacies but physical monuments like the Long Now Foundation’s 10,000 Year Clock, funded by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, while most people depend on corporate platforms to preserve their own legacies or
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San Francisco’s status as a tech hub, my research has taken me all over the city to sites like the Internet Archive and the Long Now Foundation’s Interval Space and events like Wired magazine’s twenty-fifth anniversary festival, the 2012 Singularity Summit—an annual transhumanist conference—and the 2013 Death
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to physical things in the world. Rather than viewing technology through short-term gains, technologists associated with projects like Stewart Brand’s San Francisco–based Long Now Foundation are crafting long-term visions of the future, integrating hardware and other physical objects with aggregated data. I mark the repercussions of technologists’ desire to
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West Coast money and power have a distinctive flavor. Some of the futurists in the room hailed from the Institute for the Future and the Long Now Foundation, Silicon Valley hubs for pondering humanity’s long-term relationship with technology. The Institute for the Future (IFTF), a splinter group formed out of the
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and wealthy clients to make predictions about the future of technology to help guide investments.44 IFTF shares some infrastructural and spiritual affinities with the Long Now Foundation. Based in San Francisco and founded by Stewart Brand and the computer scientist Danny Hillis in 1996, the foundation emerged from Brand’s 1960s hippie
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time only when a human visitor compels it to do so. The human and the machine are inextricably linked in far-reaching mythic timescales. The Long Now Foundation tends to merge cutting-edge technology with the natural world, bridging its investments in both electronic and physical frontiers. The Long Now’s plans to
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their host institutions and affiliations overlap. Paul Saffo is one such futurist Stanford graduate who now leads Future Studies at Singularity University, serves as a Long Now Foundation board member, and is also the former director of the IFTF. Other luminaries included Tom Gruber, another Stanford alum with a Ph.D. from MIT
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long I had been at Stanford. When I disclosed that I was not at all affiliated with the university, they grimaced ever so slightly. The Long Now Foundation’s Interval Space. The extinct passenger pigeon is in the case, and books from the Manual for Civilization are visible behind the exhibit. (Photograph by
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jokes at the expense of Ray Kurzweil—perhaps the most visible transhumanist and Singularity proponent.58 But at heart, they are not so different. One Long Now Foundation board member somewhat sheepishly admitted that he had been in a meeting with Kurzweil earlier that morning. Everyone at the event, no matter how cynical
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, as far as I am concerned. Provo’s Transhuman House opened in 2017 in a nondescript condo development. David J. Kelley, a former Microsoft employee, Long Now Foundation board member, and Seattle-based techie, designed and built his ideal living quarters, intended to be a safe haven for transhumanists who might face ostracization
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of the main components of the Foundation, which encompasses the Transhuman House and Kelley’s AI startup business. The Foundation is a play on the Long Now Foundation. In another point of synchronicity, Kelley started the Foundation in the same year that Brand started its sibling, the Long Now, 1996 (01996 in the
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a form of immortality. In futurist circles interested in the intersection of transcendence and pragmatism, there is an emphasis on being a good ancestor. One Long Now Foundation fellow, philosopher Roman Krznaric, has a blog post featuring a “cognitive toolkit for good ancestors” based on his book The Good Ancestor. In it he
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neuroscientist named David Eagleman. Eagleman, as a figure, brings together the disparate threads of this book: he sits on the board of Stewart Brand’s Long Now Foundation, and when he is not researching human consciousness in his laboratory at Baylor University, he moonlights as a writer. He is also the founder of
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human life span through nanotechnology and mind uploading, or futurists who envision other forms of long-term legacy, are not romantic dreamers. Rather, like the Long Now Foundation and other powerful Silicon Valley networks, they have the ability to attract investors and convince others of the worthiness of their plans. According to the
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an ethnographer who also gained entrance into these spaces, providing a critical lens as a participant-observer. He is now a board member of the Long Now Foundation. 45. In his book on the Clock of the Long Now, Brand says a good motto for the group might be “We don’t do
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so I could view the Transhuman House. 73. Full disclosure: I recognized David’s Long Now card because I also have one. I joined the Long Now Foundation in 2012 to gain access to its events and to mingle with its staff. 74. The Transhuman House, Foundation Retreat VC Pitch Deck, house.transhumanity
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to dream about the possible afterlife attached to the tale. As a result of his appreciation of Sum, Brand personally invited Eagleman to join the Long Now Foundation in 2011. 5. Eagleman, “A Brief History of Death Switches,” 282. 6. Eagleman, Sum, 68. 7. Hayles, How We Became Posthuman; Ullman, “Programming the Post
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-0. Kellner, Douglas. “Media Spectacle and the Massacre at Virginia Tech.” Fast Capitalism 3, no. 1 (2007): 45–58. Kelly, Kevin. “Clock in the Mountain.” Long Now Foundation Ideas, June 15, 2011. longnow.org/ideas/02011/06/16/clock-in-the-mountain/. Kennedy, Jenny, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Rowan Wilken, and Martin Gibbs
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.io/bodies/mormon-mommies-will-never-die. Krznaric, Roman. “Six Ways to Think Long-Term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors.” Long Now Foundation Medium post, July 20, 2020. medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/six-ways-to-think-long-term-da373b3377a4. Kunkle, Fredrick. “Virginia Family, Seeking Clues to Son’s Suicide, Wants Easier Access to
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.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist-fetishists-prepping-and-the-abandonment-of-earth. Rose, Alexander. “The Mormon Vaults.” Long Now Foundation blog, April 9, 2007. blog.longnow.org/02007/04/09/the-granite-vaults-of-geneology. Russell, Legacy. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. New York: Verso, 2020
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and Aging, (i) Boston Estate Planning Council, (i) Bouk, Dan, (i)n50 Bowker, Geoff, (i)n44 Bradbury, Ray, (i) Brand, Stewart: Eagleman and, (i)n4; Long Now Foundation and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); power relations and, (i); WELL (electronic community) and, (i), (ii) “A Brief History of Death Switches” (Eagleman), (i) Brilliant
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of Congress, (i) life insurance industry, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) LifeNaut, (i) Lindner, Julie, (i) Lindner, Paul, (i) LinkedIn, (i) Lipner, Mia, (i) LiveJournal, (i) Long Now Foundation: Clock of the Long Now and, (i), (ii), (iii); Eagleman and, (i), (ii)n4; mission of, (i), (ii); smart technologies and, (i), (ii); Transhuman House
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