Long Now Foundation
The Long Now Foundation is a globally-recognized champion of long-term thinking and responsibility founded in 01996 by Stewart Brand, Danny Hillis, and Brian Eno. We believe that civilization-scale challenges call for civilization-scale thinking. We are working toward a world rich in imagination and possibility that provides a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture, a world in which we all take the long-term future and the long-term past seriously. Our highest hope is that the next generation will never doubt that we thought of them and built for them. The Long Now Foundation began its work with The Clock of the Long Now, a mythic monument designed to keep time for the next 10,000 years from deep inside a mountain. Our work expanded into related projects all aimed at fostering long term thinking — Long Now Talks, a renowned live event series whose podcasts and videos have over 100,000 subscribers and millions of global viewers, the Long Now membership program, which centers long-term thinking in the day-to-day lives of over 12,000 members from more than 60 countries, and an award-winning cafe, bar, and museum in San Francisco called The Interval.www.longnow.org
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Oct 7, 2026
Asher MillerHOST
I'm splitting my time between DC and the, the Bay Area.
Asher MillerHOST
I went to this talk at the Long Now Foundation, right? And I met Peter Diamandis and Stewart Brand, and I gotta say, spending time with those guys, I g- kinda got convinced.
Asher MillerHOST
We need the technologists to lead us out of this crazy town situation that we're in, you know? And we just should just rely on the wisdom of AI agents, man.
Asher MillerHOST
If our politics is so flawed, it's, it's because we're human, so I, I just think we need to turn to the machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Danny is also a highly regarded futurist who thinks long term.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Four years ago, he started the Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock designed to last ten thousand years in an attempt to draw attention to the pitifully short attention span of our society.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
So I flew to Los Angeles for the express purpose of having dinner with Danny and his wife, Patty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I went through my now familiar routine, trotting out the ideas and passages that I found so disturbing.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Danny is also a highly regarded futurist who thinks long term.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Four years ago, he started the Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock designed to last ten thousand years in an attempt to draw attention to the pitifully short attention span of our society.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
So I flew to Los Angeles for the express purpose of having dinner with Danny and his wife, Patty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I went through my now-familiar routine, trotting out the ideas and passages that I found so disturbing.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Danny is also a highly regarded futurist who thinks long term.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Four years ago, he started the Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock designed to last ten thousand years in an attempt to draw attention to the pitifully short attention span of our society.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
So I flew to Los Angeles for the express purpose of having dinner with Danny and his wife, Patty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I went through my now-familiar routine, trotting out the ideas and passages that I found so disturbing.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Danny is also a highly regarded futurist who thinks long term.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Four years ago, he started the Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock designed to last ten thousand years in an attempt to draw attention to the pitifully short attention span of our society.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
So I flew to Los Angeles for the express purpose of having dinner with Danny and his wife, Patty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I went through my now familiar routine, trotting out the ideas and passages that I found so disturbing.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Danny is also a highly regarded futurist who thinks long term.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Four years ago, he started the Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock designed to last ten thousand years in an attempt to draw attention to the pitifully short attention span of our society.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
So I flew to Los Angeles for the express purpose of having dinner with Danny and his wife, Patty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I went through my now familiar routine, trotting out the ideas and passages that I found so disturbing.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Danny is also a highly regarded futurist who thinks long term.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Four years ago, he started the Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock designed to last ten thousand years in an attempt to draw attention to the pitifully short attention span of our society.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
So I flew to Los Angeles for the express purpose of having dinner with Danny and his wife, Patty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I went through my now-familiar routine, trotting out the ideas and passages that I found so disturbing.
Grant SlaterHOST
Mm.
Jonathon KeatsGUEST
So if you walk down into a grove of bristlecones, for instance, which is the condition in which I first experienced bristlecones with, with the Long Now Foundation while working on a calendar that's calibrated by the trees.
Jonathon KeatsGUEST
Initially, well, at the very top, there's nothing.
Grant SlaterHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jonathan KeatsGUEST
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Denise HearnHOST
Welcome to the Long Now podcast.
Denise HearnHOST
I'm your host, Denise Hearn, Long Now's Director of Strategic Initiatives, and I'm excited to be joining you in this role for the first time.
Denise HearnHOST
Today, we're going back into the Long Now archives for a talk from artist and experimental philosopher Jonathan Keats.
Denise HearnHOST
Jonathan describes his work as a kind of philosophy practiced out in the world.
Denise HearnHOST
Instead of using a thought experiment simply to make an argument, he builds things, stages experiments, and creates situations that allow us to enter into questions instead of dialectics or stayed debates.
Denise HearnHOST
But near the end of the evening, Jonathan introduces something entirely new, an idea he had never presented publicly, a five thousand-year calendar kept not by gears or electronics, but by the growth of a bristlecone pine tree.
Denise HearnHOST
Listening from our vantage point today makes this moment particularly special.