# long now (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover long now. Page: Feed: --- ## [Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely](https://longnow.org/talks/02026-akomolafe) _2026-05-20 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ In his Talk, poet-philosopher Bayo Akomolafe presented a riveting critique of linear time, and gave a persuasive invitation to step sideways, to slow down, to notice the cracks in our temporal systems. Through Yoruba cosmology, slave ship histories, and decolonization strategies, he invited us to look at the space between the tick and the tock, to sit in the uncomfortable and incomplete. Only… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-akomolafe-podcast-v3.mp3) ## [Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane: The Geometry of Consciousness](https://longnow.org/talks/02026-webb-miolane) _2026-05-20 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ \*\*This evening is made possible with generous support from the John Templeton Foundation.\*\* How do the binary electronic signals of neurons give rise to subjective experience? Mathematician and machine learning researcher Nina Miolane joined science historian Claire Isabel Webb to explore this question from an unexpected direction: geometry. Plotting the collective firing rate of neurons in 3D… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-webb-miolane-podcast-v2.mp3) ## [Eric Ries: Incorruptible by Design](https://longnow.org/talks/02026-ries) _2026-04-30 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ What if we redefined “profit” as maximizing human flourishing? Eric Ries has seen the corrosive effects of shareholder primacy at every company he’s worked with. Mission-driven companies, however, are the outliers: demonstrating stronger profits, better talent, and deeper loyalty. So why don't we build differently? In the long arc of economic history, our current definitions of profit and value… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-ries-podcast-v2.mp3) ## [Melody Jue: Ocean Memory](https://longnow.org/talks/02026-jue) _2026-04-09 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ The ocean is not empty. It is a vast storage facility of memory agents. Ocean bodies use the chemical signatures of seawater for memory and intelligence in ways we can barely imagine. In her Talk, Melody Jue said our struggle to understand ocean memory comes from our terrestrial bias. This bias shapes what we try to protect and the technologies we develop. We must, she said, “deterritorialize the… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-jue-podcast-v2.mp3) ## [Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.](https://longnow.org/talks/02026-sagmeister) _2026-03-12 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ "The world is terrible, and the world is better," Stefan Sagmeister said. "Both can be true." It all depends on perspective. In his Long Now Talk, Finally, something good, Sagmeister urged us to zoom out. The faster the news cycle spins, and the more we scroll, the more we catastrophize. Meanwhile, the things that improve tend to do so slowly and quietly. In this visually stunning talk, Sagmeister… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-sagmeister-podcast-v2.mp3) ## [Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering](https://longnow.org/talks/02026-johar) _2026-02-12 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ Indy Johar pointed to the first photographs of the whole Earth taken from space. “This was the moment the planet became self-aware." This planetary consciousness came with new responsibility, he argued. The task before us is not simply to survive, but to reimagine civilization as a planetary project. As climate and ecological instability creates extreme whiplash effects, we will find it… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02026-johar-podcast-v2.mp3) ## [Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires](https://longnow.org/talks/02025-crawford) _2025-12-11 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ Kate Crawford’s Long Now Talk traces an historical arc from Renaissance perspective to AI image models, illustrating how shifts in representational power shape empires, economies—even our shared sense of reality. During the talk, Crawford gives a tour through her detailed artwork Calculating Empires. Through examples ranging from Liebig’s critique of agriculture “robbing” soil nutrients, to… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02025-crawford-podcast-v3.mp3) ## [Lynn Rothschild: Nature’s Hardware Store](https://longnow.org/talks/02025-rothschild) _2025-11-05 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ What if the solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges — on Earth and beyond — have already been invented by nature? In this forward-looking talk, evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist Dr. Lynn Rothschild explores how life’s patterns, materials, and mechanisms, refined over billions of years, can serve as a blueprint for building better futures on Earth and other planets. Drawing on insights… [Listen](http://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02025-rothschild-podcast-v2.mp3) ## [Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?](https://longnow.org/talks/02025-aguera-y-arcas) _2025-10-09 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis. He explores how, in our symbiotic world, things combine to make larger things all the time. We might think of humanity in terms of the individual — but we're already part of everything we're creating, which is in… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/02025-aguera-y-arcas-podcast.mp3) ## [Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence](https://longnow.org/talks/02025-carson) _2025-06-13 · The Long Now Foundation · Long Now_ \*\*Kim Carson's new book \[\_Inspired by Intelligence: From Burnout to Becoming\_\](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJGYQHN6?ref=cm\_sw\_r\_ffobk\_cp\_ud\_dp\_GRXNCCGS6G4C982ADDQD&ref\_=cm\_sw\_r\_ffobk\_cp\_ud\_dp\_GRXNCCGS6G4C982ADDQD&social\_share=cm\_sw\_r\_ffobk\_cp\_ud\_dp\_GRXNCCGS6G4C982ADDQD&bestFormat=true) is available May 1, 02026.\*\* What if AI is not here actually to replace us, but to remind us who we actually are?… [Listen](https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/020250422-carson-podcast-v2.mp3) ## [Art over time](https://longnowlondon.substack.com/p/art-over-time) _2025-03-12 · Long Now London · Long Now London_ March 02025 - Booking details for Longplayer Live at the Roundhouse and "By a Long Chalk", the new pace layers-inspired walking tour from Minimum Labyrinth. Additional writing about Longplayer in London and the Zeitpyramide in Bavaria. Also mention of Bette A and Brian Eno ("What Art Does") and Tim Ingold ("The Rise and Fall of Generation Now"). ## [Planetary](https://longnowlondon.substack.com/p/planetary) _2025-01-31 · Long Now London · Long Now London_ February 02025 - Experimenting with form. Information about our next gathering. Six perspectives on the "Planetary" by members of our community here in London. ## [02024 into 02025](https://longnowlondon.substack.com/p/02024-into-02025) _2024-12-11 · Long Now London_ Upcoming events in the Long Now London community: "Rendlesham" by Minimum Labyrinth; gatherings at the RSA; Longplayer at the Roundhouse; Pace Layers Journal by the Long Now Foundation.