Long Now Boston has been meeting for five years. In this open hybrid live/virtual conversation, Long Now Boston leadership and a panel of esteemed past speakers explored key questions facing our organization, our culture and our global civilization.,
What have we learned? How do we make long term thinking a short term priority? What do others think? What insights need to be shared? What should we aspire to?
The entire conversation can be reviewed in this video.
Paul Kirshen
Paul Kirshen is a professor in the School for the Environment at UMass Boston. He has thirty years of experience as principal investigator on complex, interdisciplinary research related to climate variability.
James Hughes
James Hughes, Ph.D. is a bioethicist and sociologist, and the Executive Director of the (IEET), which he co-founded with philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2004
Lee Vinsel
Lee Vinsel is a professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech, a co-founder of The Maintainers, and co-author of The Innovation Delusion.
Cristina Parreño Alonso
Cristina Parreño Alonso studies and teaches architecture from a deep time perspective, and she explores these ideas in her teaching, her design and in exhibited works in public spaces.
Andrew Russell
Andrew L. Russell is a Professor of History and dean of the College of Arts and Science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, co-founder of the Maintainers research network and conferences, and co-author of The Innovation Delusion.
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