Seminars About Long-term Thinking
free to the public

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When: The second Friday of each month through 02004 and 02005.

Time: Coffee bar opens at 7pm, lecture begins promptly at 7:30pm. (With an unticketed lecture it is advisable to come early for a good seat.)

Where: Fort Mason, San Francsico (Seminars will be held in varying locations at Fort Mason. Sign up for the Seminar mailing list for monthly details, or call The Long Now Offices, or just show up a bit early to lower Ft Mason and look for the signs.)

Donations: A $10 donation is very welcome as cost thousands to produce each month, but it is certainly NOT required for attendance. (Cash or check accepted at the door, or you can make a donation on our Donation Page)

Why: The purpose of the series is to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

2nd Fridays in 02005

• April 8, 02005 - Stewart Brand
  "Cities & Time"
  Jared Diamond's talk has been rescheduled to July.
  We apologize for the inconvenience.
  


• May 13 - Will Jarvis
  "Time Capsule Behavior"



• June 10 - Robert Neuwirth
  "The 2ist Century Medieval City"



• July 15th- Jared Diamond
  "How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed"
  

Past Lectures 02004

• Jan. 9 - George Dyson
  "There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing"
  
  
• Feb. 13 - James Dewar
  "Long-term Policy Analysis"
  (Dewar is head of RAND's new Pardee Center on very long-term policy---35 to 200 years)
  
  
• Mar. 12 - Rusty Schweickart
  "The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years"
  
  
• Apr. 9 - Daniel Janzen
  "It's ALL Gardening"
  (Janzen is the famed conservation biologist based in Costa Rica)
  
  
• May 14 - David Rumsey
  "Mapping Time"
  
  
• June 11 - Bruce Sterling
  "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole" (background on The Singularity by Stewart Brand)



• July 9th- Jill Tarter, SETI Institute
  "Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence - A Necessarily Long-Term Strategy"



• August 13 - Phillip Longman
  "The Depopulation Problem"



• September 10 - Danny Hillis
  "Progress on the 10,000-year Clock"



• October 15 - Paul Hawken
  "The Long Green"



• November 12 - Michael West
  "The Prospects of Human Life Extension."



• December 3 - Ken Dychtwald (note this is the FIRST friday in this month, not the usual second friday)
  "The Consequences of Human Life Extension"
  
  

Past Lectures 02003

• Nov. 14 - Brian Eno
  "The Long Now"
• Dec. 12 - Peter Schwartz
  "The Art of the Really Long View"