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Intellectual Dark Matter
Intellectual Dark Matter
Knowledge that we can show exists, but cannot directly access, rests at the foundations of society and technology.
Samo Burja
Jul 16, 2019
Deep Time
Deep Time
Our time-horizons have hugely extended back into the past. But there has to be an even greater enlargement in our concept of the future.
Martin Rees
Dec 29, 2018
Seminar Summaries by Stewart Brand
Making the world better
Making the world better
Steven Pinker’s Long Now Seminar
Stewart Brand
Apr 5, 2018
Two ways to save humanity
Two ways to save humanity
A summary of Charles Mann’s Seminar “The Wizard and the Prophet”
Stewart Brand
Feb 14, 2018
Cognitive Planet
Cognitive Planet
A summary of David Grinspoon’s Seminar
Stewart Brand
Nov 5, 2017
Life nearby
Life nearby
Carolyn Porco’s Long Now Seminar
Stewart Brand
Sep 7, 2017
How to finesse complexity
How to finesse complexity
A summary of Nicky Case’s Seminar by Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand
Aug 22, 2017
Time travel is time research
Time travel is time research
Gleick invited audience members to query themselves: If you could travel in time, would you go to the future or to the past? When exactly…
Stewart Brand
Jul 4, 2017
Why cities live forever
Why cities live forever
A summary of Geoffrey West’s Long Now Seminar
Stewart Brand
Jun 22, 2017
Death’s honesty
Death’s honesty
What the Dying Can Teach the Living
Stewart Brand
May 25, 2017
Doing Good Better
Doing Good Better
Bjorn Lomborg’s Seminar
Stewart Brand
Mar 27, 2017
Toward agile government
Toward agile government
PAHLKA QUOTED: “EFFICIENCY IN GOVERNMENT IS A MATTER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.” (Mayor John Norquist) It is at the often maddening interface with…
Stewart Brand
Feb 13, 2017
Inventing toward delight
Inventing toward delight
Steven Johnson’s Long Now Seminar
Stewart Brand
Jan 23, 2017
Future Now
Future Now
A summary of Douglas Coupland’s Seminar
Stewart Brand
Dec 9, 2016
Coherent Cities
Coherent Cities
Stewart Brand
Nov 7, 2016
The Brain’s Now
The Brain’s Now
Stewart Brand
Oct 24, 2016
Quantum Computer Reality
Quantum Computer Reality
Stewart Brand
Aug 22, 2016
Digital is just getting started
Digital is just getting started
Stewart Brand
Jul 26, 2016
Solving hard decisions
Solving hard decisions
A Summary by Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand
Jun 28, 2016
The darkness of dark matter and dark energy
The darkness of dark matter and dark energy
Stewart Brand
Apr 20, 2016
Revolutionary Rice
Revolutionary Rice
Stewart Brand
Mar 23, 2016
Ecological wildfire
Ecological wildfire
Stewart Brand
Feb 15, 2016
When chaos overwhelmed civilization
When chaos overwhelmed civilization
Stewart Brand
Jan 20, 2016
All it takes to improve forecasting is KEEP SCORE
All it takes to improve forecasting is KEEP SCORE
Stewart Brand
Jan 20, 2016
Infrastructure investment tricks
Infrastructure investment tricks
Stewart Brand
Jan 20, 2016
De-extinction science
De-extinction science
Stewart Brand
Jan 20, 2016
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