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

READ Andrew Dana Hudson's companion piece to this essay, "The Weather Out There," a work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that ...

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 ...

One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, ...

These are the principles that Danny Hillis used in the initial stages of designing a 10,000 Year Clock. We have found these are generally good principles for designing anything to last a long time. It ...

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member ...

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 ...

Jesse Schell is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CEO of Schell Games, and author of The Art of Game Design. Formerly he was chair of the International Gems Developers ...

D. Richard ("Rip") Anderson, of Sandia National Laboratories, is known as an innovator in the field of probabilistic risk assessment. He led the successful certification process for the nuclear Waste ...

A professor at Stanford since 1995, Ian Morris founded and directed the Stanford Archaeology Center and ran a dig in Sicily that dates to the 7th century BCE, chaired the Classics Department, and ...

The author of Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh is CEO of Zappos and previously co-founded LinkExchange. He initiated the Downtown Project to revitalize downtown Las Vegas and his company. Can a ...