Paul Miller

Stewart Brand’s book Whole Earth Discipline is one of the best books I’ve read in the last few years, partly because it’s very well written and researched but mainly because it made me change my mind about some important issues. Perhaps the easiest argument for me to accept (although I still learned a great deal) [...]

Long Now Foundation fans might be interested to know that co-founder Stewart Brand is doing a talk at the ICA about his new book – Whole Earth Discipline on the 30th January. Do come along. The meetup group will also be hanging out in the cafe for a couple of hours after the talk if [...]

[This is a slightly adapted version of a short talk I gave at MASS LBP on 10 March 2009 in Toronto, Canada] It feels a bit unfashionable in tumultuous times like these but there’s something you should know about me before we start. I’m an optimist – a practical optimist in that I like making [...]

Long Now London has been growing quite nicely over the past year with a great bunch of people getting together to talk about long term ideas and have a few drinks. Our January meetup will be on 22nd January 02009 and Alfie Dennen will give a short talk about his brilliant Stopped Clocks project. Sign [...]

“If you’re going to take a long-term orientation, you have to be willing to stay heads down and ignore a wide array of critics, even well-meaning critics. If you don’t have a willingness to be misunderstood for a long period of time, then you can’t have a long-term orientation.” That’s Jeff Bezos in US News. [...]

I love Meetup and there’s a great piece in the FT Weekend Magazine that explains quite what it is that makes it work. It really started to come together for me a few weeks ago when we had a fantastic Long Now London Meetup. Up until then it had just been people I knew, but [...]

We’re having our second Long Now London Meetup this Wednesday (18th June 02008) at this place from about 7pm. I thought it might be good to get a bit of a discussion going about the Long Bets project as there have been some interesting goings on over the past month or so. Do drop by [...]

I’ve been hanging out with Scott and the gang at Meetup a bit recently and remembering what a fantastic tool it is for getting people together. So I’ve set up a Long Now London Meetup group to try and get people interested in long-term thinking and the work of the Long Now Foundation together. Do [...]

Lovey piece on the Long Now Foundation site by Danny Hillis about what it was like having Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman hanging around at Thinking Machines.

The most recent Long Now Seminar in San Francisco sounds like it was brilliant. Frans Lanting set out to take photographs of places where the conditions resemble those from key moments in the distant past of the evolution of planet Earth. From Stewart’s email summary: On a live volcano in Hawaii he found the naked [...]