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Bruce Sterling – “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole”
Your future as a black hole One reason lots of people don’t want to think long term these days is because technology keeps accelerating so rapidly, we assume the world will become unrecognizable in a...
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The shrinking literary future
I have been noticing a funny phenomenon recently in the work of my favorite science fiction authors. Their futures seem to be shrinking. I thought it may have just been a coincidence that two of my...
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Yesterday’s Tomorrow
While contemporary visions of the future aren’t new, past visions of the future are. Indeed “yesterday’s tomorrows” is a new genre with a growing body of material, including several books, such as...
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Anathem and Long Now
Neal Stephenson’s new novel, ANATHEM, germinated in 01999 when Danny Hillis asked him and several other contributors to sketch out their ideas of what the Millennium Clock might look like. Stephenson...
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Daniel Suarez, “Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality”
[Daniel Suarez, originally published as Leinad Zaurus, delivered a talk on the themes developed in his (originally self published) book Daemon. The book is now scheduled to be released in hard cover...
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Neal Stephenson – King of the Worlds
Steven Levy has an excellent piece on Neal Stephenson’s Anathem in the September Wired. The article includes in depth back story on the Long Now related inspirations for the book. If you are going...
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Iolet: The Music of Anathem
In Neal Stephenson’s new novel Anathem, the Decanarian Erasmus’ daily chore is to ring the Clock bells in his “Math” in a special sequence each day as he chants out the sequence. Those sequences and...
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Neal Stephenson and the 10,000-Year Clock
In 1998 Danny Hillis asked some friends to make sketches of what they imagined a 10,000-year clock should look like. Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, among others, provided several sketches. One...
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Anathem Event details
Tickets and pre-signed books are now sold out for the Anathem book launch event on September 9th, 02008 in San Francisco. The evening will include a reading by Neal Stephenson, a followup...
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Neal Stephenson, “ANATHEM Book Launch Event”
Anathem book launch With over 900 Long Now members and sci-fi appreciators in the audience, we celebrated the release of Neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem on Tuesday September 9, 02008 in San...
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Neal Stephenson reads from Anathem
Video above (from Fora.tv) of Neal reading from Anathem at the book launch event last night, and a little of the live singing. We would like to thank the nearly 900 attendees, and those that watched...
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Daniel Suarez reads from DAEMON
Long Now is presenting a reading and book signing of DAEMON by author Daniel Suarez, who gave a Seminar last August on “Bot-mediated Reality”. We hope you can join us this Sunday February 1, 02009 at...
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Futurestates: watch, predict the future
I just happened upon a call for extras (check it out if you’re based in San Francisco) for a film that will be part of a series of sci-fi shorts called Futurestates: What will become of America in...
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Cory Doctorow Seminar Primer
“The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer” Tuesday July 31, 02012 at the Novellus Theater, San Francisco If geek culture had a class president, Cory Doctorow would be frontrunner for the...
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Daniel Suarez, Alexander Rose on Drones and Robots
Like their makers, robots can be used for creativity or destruction. Robots can be used to build things we wouldn’t expect and to destroy us in ways we haven’t yet imagined. In two events, Daniel...
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Neal Stephenson’s Hieroglyph Project Launches
Towers that reach 15 kilometers into the sky and autonomous 3D-printing robots on the Moon aren’t just great fodder for sci-fi; they’re also plausible enough to be considered as audacious, but...
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Hugh Howey’s Dystopian Silo Saga Joins the Manual for Civilization
Science fiction author Hugh Howey donated to the Manual for Civilization a one-off hard cover set of his Silo Saga with a special title page for The Long Now Foundation. The dystopian science fiction...
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Science Fiction to Science Fabrication Talk at The Interval July 1, 02014
Tickets are on sale for Science Fiction to Science Fabrication July 1, 02014 at The Interval Artist/maker/hacker Dan Novy (Novysan) is an Emmy award-winning transmedia storyteller with a background in...
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Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming — A Seminar Flashback
In September 02013 futurist Peter Schwartz spoke for Long Now about realistic scenarios for human interstellar travel. Peter, a founding Long Now Board member, participated in “The 100-year Starship”...
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Neal Stephenson at The Interval: May 21, Book Signing and Livestream
Neal Stephenson speaks at The Interval on May 21, 02015. Photo by Kelly O’Connor Best-selling author Neal Stephenson will visit The Interval at Long Now in San Francisco to read from and sign his new...
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