SALT - Seminars About Long Term Thinking
By The Long Now Foundation
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Podcast Description
The subscription URL is http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml . The Seminars About Long-term Thinking is a monthly speaking series produced by The Long Now Foundation and hosted by Stewart Brand. The series looks from many angles and backgrounds at the subject of long term thinking and responsibility. Examples of speakers in the series range from musician Brian Eno, author Bruce Sterling, anthropologist Jared Diamond, technologist Ray Kurzweil, geneticist Craig Venter, and game creator Will Wright. This series is supported by Long Now members who also get hi resolution video of the series and invites to special events. You can become a member at: https://longnow.org/membership/. This podcast is brought to you in partnership with FORA.tv. Visit the Long Now Foundation channel at http://fora.tv/partner/long_now_foundation for videos of many of these events.
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Lawrence Lessig | How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rick Prelinger | Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6 | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Brewster Kahle | Universal Access to All Knowledge | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Laura Cunningham | Ten Millennia of California Ecology | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 |
Timothy Ferriss | Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6 |
Geoffrey B. West | Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Peter Kareiva | Conservation in the Real World | 6/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carl Zimmer | Viral Time | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9 |
Tim Flannery | Here on Earth | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 |
Ian Morris | Why the West Rules - For Now | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11 |
Alexander Rose | Millennial Precedent | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12 |
Matt Ridley | Deep Optimism | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13 |
Mary Catherine Bateson | Live Longer, Think Longer | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14 |
Philip K. Howard | Fixing Broken Government | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15 |
Rick Prelinger | Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5 | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16 |
Rachel Sussman | The World's Oldest Living Organisms | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17 |
Lera Boroditsky | How Language Shapes Thought | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18 |
Stewart Brand, Jane McGonigal | Long Conversation 19 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19 |
Jane McGonigal, Tiffany Shlain | Long Conversation 18 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Hawken, Tiffany Shlain | Long Conversation 17 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21 |
Paul Hawken, Katherine Fulton | Long Conversation 16 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22 |
Katherine Fulton, Stuart Candy | Long Conversation 15 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23 |
Stuart Candy, Danese Cooper | Long Conversation 14 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24 |
Peter Schwartz, Danese Cooper | Long Conversation 13 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25 |
Peter Schwartz, Pete Worden | Long Conversation 12 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ken Foster, Pete Worden | Long Conversation 11 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Melissa Alexander, Ken Foster | Long Conversation 10 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28 |
Melissa Alexander, Ken Wilson | Long Conversation 9 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29 |
John Perry Barlow, Ken Wilson | Long Conversation 8 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30 |
John Perry Barlow, Violet Blue | Long Conversation 7 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Violet Blue, Robin Sloan | Long Conversation 6 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jill Tarter, Robin Sloan | Long Conversation 5 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jill Tarter, Emily Levine | Long Conversation 4 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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34 |
Saul Griffith, Emily Levine | Long Conversation 3 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35 |
Saul Griffith, Jem Finer | Long Conversation 2 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stewart Brand, Jem Finer | Long Conversation 1 of 19 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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37 |
Martin Rees | Life's Future in the Cosmos | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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38 |
Jesse Schell | Visions of the Gamepocalypse | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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39 |
Frank Gavin | Five Ways to Use History Well | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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40 |
Ed Moses | Clean Fusion Power This Decade | 6/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nils Gilman | Deviant Globalization | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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42 |
David Eagleman | Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization | 4/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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43 |
Beth Noveck | Transparent Government | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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44 |
Alan Weisman | World Without Us, World With Us | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Alexander Rose | Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference | 2/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wade Davis | The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rick Prelinger | Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4 | 12/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sander van der Leeuw | The Archaeology of Innovation | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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49 |
Stewart Brand | Rethinking Green | 10/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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50 |
Arthur Ganson | Machines and the Breath of Time | 9/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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51 |
Wayne Clough | Smithsonian Forever | 8/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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52 |
Pamela Ronald, Raoul Adamchak | Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future | 7/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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53 |
Paul Romer | A Theory of History, with an Application | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Pollan | Deep Agriculture | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gavin Newsom | Cities and Time | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Everett | Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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57 |
Dmitry Orlov | Social Collapse Best Practices | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Saul Griffith | Climate Change Recalculated | 1/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rick Prelinger | Lost Landscapes of San Francisco | 12/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drew Endy vs. Jim Thomas | Synthetic Biology Debate | 11/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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61 |
Frans Lanting | Life's Journey Through Time | 10/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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62 |
Huey Johnson | Green Planning at Nation Scale | 10/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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63 |
Peter Diamandis | Long-term X-Prizes | 9/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus) | Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality | 8/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edward Burtynsky | The 10,000-year Gallery | 7/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Ehrlich | The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment | 6/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest | Quadir is the now-legendary founder of GrameenPhone, which transformed his home country of Bangladesh in the 1990s and led the way for the cellphone revolution throughout the developing world. Currently Quadir heads the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and is building Emergence BioEnergy Inc., a project to develop local electricity for the rural poor, using such devices as a fuel cell that runs on anaerobic bacteria. Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed. | 5/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz | Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress | 4/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Craig Venter | Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention | 2/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought | 2/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Saffo | Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting | 1/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais | At the Edge of Art | 12/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Enduring Principles for Changing Times | 11/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Juan Enriquez | Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge | 10/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gwyneth Cravens with Rip Anderson | Power to Save the World | 9/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Wright | The Deep History of the Information Age | 8/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francis Fukuyama | "The End of History" Revisited | 7/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Hawken | The New Great Transformation | 6/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Johnson | The Long Zoom | 5/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Fagan | We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change | 5/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Hawken | Paul Hawken - The Long Green | 4/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vernor Vinge | What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? | 2/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Tetlock | Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs | 1/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Rosedale | Second Life: What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING? | 11/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Katherine Fulton (with Richard Rockefeller and Larry Brilliant) | The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy | 11/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Baez | Zooming Out in Time | 10/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Orville Schell | China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term? | 9/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Rendon | John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, is a senior communications consultant to the White Houses and Departments of Defense. His subject in this talk is how to replace tactical, reactive response to terror with long-term strategic initative. | 7/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will Wright and Brian Eno | Will Wright and Brian Eno - Playing with Time Will Wright, creator of the video games "Sim City," "The Sims," and the forthcoming "Spore," will speak (with Brian Eno) on playing with time. | 6/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris Anderson with Will Hearst | Chris Anderson with Will Hearst - The Long Time Tail A new economic principle is the "the long tail," discovered and named by the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson. The former dominance of best-sellers has been augmented by the new dominance of innumerable tiny-sellers, thanks to the Internet. Investor and publisher Will Hearst notes that there is a time dimension as well to the long tail phenomenon, still being discovered. | 5/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jimmy Wales | Jimmy Wales - Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embracing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, examines how vision drives and defines that project and its strategy--- and how it fits into the even larger world and prospects of "free culture." | 4/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Kelly | Kevin Kelly - The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method. | 3/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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93 |
Stephen Lansing | Stephen Lansing - Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali | 2/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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94 |
Peter Schwartz and Ralph Cavanagh | Peter Schwartz and Ralph Cavanagh - Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years | 1/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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95 |
Sam Harris | Sam Harris - The View from the End of the World | 12/9/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clay Shirky | Clay Shirky - Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories Video avaliable on video.google.com "longnow.org" http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=longnow.org | 11/14/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freeman, George and Esther Dyson | Freeman, George and Esther Dyson - The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead | 10/5/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ray Kurzweil | Ray Kurzweil - Kurzweil's Law | 9/23/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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99 |
Robert W. Fuller | Robert W. Fuller - Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future | 8/12/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jared Diamond | Jared Diamond - How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed Video avaliable on video.google.com "longnow.org" http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=longnow.org | 7/15/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Neuwirth | Robert Neuwirth - The 21st Century Medieval City | 6/10/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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102 |
Stewart Brand | Stewart Brand - Cities and Time | 4/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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103 |
Spencer Beebe | Spencer Beebe - Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry | 3/11/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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104 |
Roger Kennedy | Roger Kennedy - The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD | 2/25/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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105 |
James P. Carse | James P. Carse - Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game | 1/14/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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106 |
Ken Dychtwald | Ken Dychtwald - The Consequences of Human Life Extension | 12/3/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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107 |
Michael West | Michael West - The Prospects of Human Life Extension | 11/12/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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108 |
Danny Hillis | Danny Hillis - Progress on the 10,000-year Clock | 9/10/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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109 |
Phillip Longman | Phillip Longman - The Depopulation Problem | 8/13/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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110 |
Jill Tarter | Jill Tarter - The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy | 7/9/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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111 |
Bruce Sterling | Bruce Sterling - The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole | 6/11/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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112 |
David Rumsey | David Rumsey - Mapping Time | 5/14/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Janzen | Daniel Janzen - Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening Video avaliable on video.google.com "longnow.org" http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=longnow.org | 4/9/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rusty Schweickart | Rusty Schweickart - The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years | 3/12/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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115 |
James Dewar | James Dewar - Long-term Policy Analysis | 2/13/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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116 |
George Dyson | George Dyson - There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing | 1/9/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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117 |
Peter Schwartz | Peter Schwartz - The Art Of The Really Long View | 12/12/03 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Long Now | This is not a concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about "The Long Now." His talk will be the first of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, sponsored by The Long Now Foundation. His talks are usually as amazing as his music. | 11/14/03 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 118 Episodes |
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