From the world-renowned geobiologist and bestselling author of A Brief History of Earth, the epic story of a planetary conversation four billion years in the making.

Humans have now flipped the process of evolution on its head: we are now directing our own evolution. What does that mean for the future of humanity?

The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization—from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to Lagos.

At this Long Now Boston event, Dr. David Barzilai explored a deceptively simple question with profound implications: what happens if we succeed in extending not just lifespan, but healthy lifespan? 

Tour and overview of Commonwealth Fusion Systems tokamak.

Deep Time Reading Group monthly meeting at Cafe Zing

Join Long Now Boston for a special screening of the acclaimed documentary Inundation District, followed by a Q&A with the director, Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker and Boston Globe reporter David Abel.

The second meeting of the Deep Time Reading Group was a good time with lots of great ideas from all participants! Meetings will continue to be held the first Sunday of the month at 2pm at Cafe Zing in Porter Square.

Next Meeting: Sunday, Dec 7, 02025 at 2:00 PM. Register here!

On October 14, 02025, Long Now Boston gathered a wide-ranging panel of thinkers to imagine what the city—and the civilization it anchors—might look like two and a half centuries from now. The evening, hosted by Long Now Boston's Gary Oberbrunner, was part of the organization’s mission: to foster long-term awareness and responsibility on a timescale measured not in years or election cycles but in centuries. The question we always ask ourselves is “How can we become better ancestors?”

The inaugural meeting of the Deep Time Reading Group was a good time with lots of great ideas from all participants! Going forward, meetings will be held the first Sunday of the month at 2pm at Cafe Zing in Porter Square.

Long Now Boston joins Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library in welcoming Christine Webb—primatologist at Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology—for a discussion of her new book The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters. This event will take place at the Harvard Science Center, Hall D, located at 1 Oxford St, Cambridge. Following the presentation will be a reception and book signing in the Cabot Science Library across the hall from the presentation room.