A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that ...

University of Hawai'i Professor Terry Hunt is the co-author of The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the mystery of Easter Island, and is conducting archaeological research on Rapa Nui. Was it ecocide?

Frank Fukuyama's 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man had profound and lasting impact with its declaration that science and technology, the growing global economy, and liberal democracy are ...

When thinking about the future, it is easy to forget to look behind you. Enter George Dyson, “a historian among futurists”, who does deep research into the history of computing to understand the ...

A MacArthur Fellow and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Beth Shapiro runs the Paleogenomics Lab and teaches ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of How to Clone a ...

Author of Don't Sleep There Are Snakes: A Life in the Amazon, Everett serves as Chair of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Illinois State University ...

Below is an essay by a founding board member Stewart Brand on the need for, and the mechanism by which, The Long Now Foundation is attempting to encourage long-term thinking. Civilization is revving ...

The Long Now Foundation presented the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings for 3 days at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Friday and Saturday evening were ...

Eric Cline is professor of ancient history and archaeology at George Washington University and Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He is author or editor of 16 books, including ...

Ever since Columbus, it’s an alien invasive world. Everybody’s germs, insects, vegetables, staple foods, rats, domestic animals, and even wildlife went everywhere, changing everything. That convulsion ...

Lazar Kunstmann is part of the Untergunther, a clandestine group with a mission to restore the neglected heritage in Paris. There is at least as much underneath Paris as there is above it. The ...

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is director for the Laboratory of Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. David Eagleman may be ...