Category: Past Events

January 6, 7PM at the CIC Venture Café. Doors open at 6PM.
Admission is free, but attendees must be registered: Tickets Here.

Envisioning the Future!  

The following five selected presentations will serve as the starting point for conversation and discussion about the future of humanity. 

• Post or Perish: In the future, celebrities will be from STEM fields. Will you be among the first?  Presented by Fredo Darling, Creative Director and freelance Media Producer.
• The secret sauce for human thriving!  Promoting human empathic virtue to ensure a brighter, happier future.  Presented by George Gantz, writer, philosopher, retired business executive and grandfather of eight.
• Dark Instincts: Resist Tribal Adaptations and Move Toward Utopia.  Presented by Robin Harper, with many interests including Researcher and Infographic Writer on human nature, health, and politics.
• The idiots guide for killing monopolies and creating star trek economies.  Presented by Nathan Towianski, Business consultant working on DAO and collaborative business models and software.
• Mirrors for Earth’s Energy Rebalancing (MEER:ReflEction): Resource-driven engineering for leveraging Earth’s chemistries to immediately offer remediation.  Presented by Ye Tao, Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard.

Bring your enthusiasm, your questions and your ideas for a thought-provoking evening, from the perspective of Long Now thinking.  The program will be highly interactive, and the audience will be asked to select their favorite presentation!  The winner will receive a $100 reward!

Join the conversation and be part of the solution.

Admission is FREE but tickets are required.

We’re proud and excited to welcome Ye, Nathan, Robin, George and Fredo to the podium at this Long Now Boston community conversation.

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On December 2, 02019, Professor Avi Loeb takes Long Now Boston to the frontiers of cosmic discovery and exobiology.  

Professor Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science and Chair of Astronomy at Harvard, Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, Founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative, Chair of both the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space science. 

See post-event summary here: Life Among the Stars

December, 02019, at CIC, 1 Broadway, Cambridge MA
Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers.
Presentations start @ 7pm

Making Small and Thinking Big – DNA Data Storage

October 7, 02019 at the CIC Venture Café — Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers. Presentations start @ 7pm.

See Event Summary HERE.

A Long Now Boston Conversation with Hyunjun Park and Nova Spivack.

Sept. 9, 02019: Long-term Loonshots: The Science of Phase Transitions and the Course of World History

A Long Now Boston Conversation with Safi Bahcall, Author of Loonshots (02019).

See the post-event Summary here.

Monday, September 9, 02019: 7PM at the CIC Venture Café — Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers

Why did modern science ignite in 17th -century Western Europe when China, Islam, and India had been so much more advanced for 1,000 years? How does understanding the behavior we see in a glass of water help us understand the fate of companies and empires? How can we use these insights to help our institutions shape the next 1,000 or 10,000 years? 

Safi Bahcall is the author of the 2019 NYT Bestseller — Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Long Now Boston would love you to join us — Saturday, August 17, from 1pm to 5pm — in celebration of our 5th season of remarkable deep time conversations.

The event summary has been posted here!

This annual intimate summer gathering is already famous for connecting local Long Now enthusiasts. This year we’ve raised the bar by welcoming some very special guests:

• Stewart Brand, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation
• Esther Dyson, founder of Wellville and chairman of EDVenture Holdings
• and Ryan Phelan, co-founder and executive director of Revive & Restore
• Danny Hillis and Taylor Milsal, our hosts, will also be on hand.

All of them promise to share updates on current projects, and there will plenty of opportunity for discussion.

We look forward to seeing you soon, getting to know you better and looking at the world together through a Long Now lens.

Light refreshments served

$100/person — General Admission — only 20 Tickets available.

A wait list will start after initial tickets are spoken for; if additional spots become available, wait list folks will be contacted.

Tickets will be availably only from Meetup for this event.

Fourth Annual Long Now Boston Summer Party

Saturday, Aug 17, 2019, 1:00 PM

54 Garfield St
54 Garfield St Cambridge, MA

28 Long Now Boston Enthusiasts Attending

Long Now Boston would love you to join us — Saturday, August 17, from 1pm to 5pm — in celebration of our 5th season of remarkable deep time conversations. This annual intimate summer gathering is already famous for connecting local Long Now enthusiasts. This year we’ve raised the bar by welcoming some very special guests: • Stewart Brand, co-founde…

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[limited to 2 tix/person — non-transferrable; non-refundable]

Innovations to Eradicate Global Poverty

A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Eleanor Murphy (Acumen) and Katherine Collins (Putnam)

See the post-event Summary here: Innovations.

June 3, 02019: 7PM at the CIC Venture Café — Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers – Tickets are available on Eventbrite