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The Long Now Foundation podcast@longnow.org http://media.longnow.org/longnow_foratv_video_podcast_icon_300x300.jpg http://www.longnow.org/ Saul Griffith http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2009-01-16_griffith_mpg_16x9_LNP_itunes.mp4 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: Inventor Saul Griffith explores methods to conserve energy consumption and better our quality of life, including a dramatically reduced speed limit. Would you drive 30 mph to save the environment? Saul Griffith http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2009-01-16_griffith_rolex_16x9_LNP_itunes.mp4 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: Inventor Saul Griffith explains why, in terms of energy consumption,it is better to buy a single high-quality product once than many cheaper, inferior versions over a lifetime. Dmitri Orlov http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2009-02-03_Orlov_washington_16x9_LNP_itunes.mp4 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: Orlov says our economic models have made us totally unprepared for acollapse, criticizes Washington's response to the crisis, and speculates that if current trends continue the US may end up as a series of loosely-connected fiefdoms Dmitri Orlov http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2009-02-03_Orlov_collapse_soup_16x9_LNP_itunes.mp4 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: Orlov explains his notion of "Superpower Collapse Soup" and how the USis like Russia circa 1989 Neal Stephenson http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2008-09-09_Stephenson_anathem_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: At an event hosted by the Long Now Foundation, science fiction author Neal Stephenson reads from his latest novel ANATHEM. Paul Ehrlich http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2008-06-27_Ehrlich_toxification_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: Everything living evolves, but humans evolve culturally as well as biologically, and that puts us in a peculiar relation to the rest of life, with a peculiar responsibility. If we can understand how cultural evolution works, we'll have a better handle on how to manage our responsibilities. The question that Ehrlich has been exploring lately is whether cultural evolution really does show patterns that would yield predictive theory. He now has data from Polynesian canoes that indicate the answer is yes, cultural evolution is patterned enough to predict with. We can discover a new way to comprehend our own behavior and perhaps influence it to the benefit of life. Entomologist and population biologist Paul Ehrlich is President of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology, author and co-author of books ranging from The Population Bomb (1968) to One With Nineveh (2004), recipient of many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Blue Planet Prize, and the Nobel-level Crafoord Prize. A follow-up summary is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2008/06/30/paul-ehrlich-the-dominant-animal-human-evolution-and-the-environment/ Iqbal Quadir http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2008-05-21_Quadir_wrong_views_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 Wed, 21 May 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: Quadir is the now-legendary founder of GrameenPhone, which transformed his home country of Bangladesh in the 1990s and led the way for the cellphone revolution throughout the developing world. Currently Quadir heads the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and is building Emergence BioEnergy Inc., a project to develop local electricity for the rural poor, using such devices as a fuel cell that runs on anaerobic bacteria. Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed. A follow-up summary is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2008/05/23/iqbal-quadir-technology-empowers-the-poorest/ Paul Saffo http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2008-01-11_Saffo_indifference_vid-wide_itunes.mp4 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: "Some would argue that forecasting is a dangerous exercise in futility, but they are mistaken. In fact, effective forecasting is not merely possible, but remarkably easy; all it takes is simple shift in perspective and a few common-sense heuristics." The most quoted futurist alive, Paul Saffo specializes in the history and future of technology. In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review he spelled out the secrets of his trade, which he will expand on in this talk. Saffo is a member of the board of The Long Now Foundation. A follow-up summary is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2008/01/14/paul-saffo-embracing-uncertainty-the-secret-to-effective-forecasting/ Jon Ippolito, Joline Blais http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2007-12-14_Jon_Ippolito_vid-wide_16x9_iPod.mp4 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: Art is humanity's long-term unconscious memory. Artists work by creative misuse, and thanks to the Internet there have never been so many tools for so many artists (and multitudes who don't know they're artists) to creatively misuse. Take a cruise through how strange and meaningful it is getting with the authors of At the Edge of Art . A follow-up summary is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/17/jon-ippolito-and-joline-blais-at-the-edge-of-art/ Francis Fukuyama http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/video/2007-06-28_Francis_Fukuyama_vid_iPod.mp4 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:00:00 -0800 Video highlight: 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 leading history in a quite different direction than Marx and Hegel imagined. In this revisit to those themes, Fukuyama examines conflict with and within Islam, the need for a diffuse form of global governance to deal with problems like climate change, and the deeper implications of biotechnology. A follow-up summary is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2007/06/29/francis-fukuyama-democracy-versus-culture/