Scotty Strachan at The Interval at Long Now | San Francisco

The Great Basin in the Anthropocene

Scotty Strachan

January 6, 02015

University of Nevada-Reno geologist talks about Bristlecone pines, long-term science, and Long Now’s Nevada mountain. With an introduction by Long Now Executive Director Alexander Rose.

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Neal Stephenson

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Elizabeth Lonsdorf

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Maya Tudor

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Ed Lu

Charting the High Frontier of Space

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Christopher Bryan

The Evolving Science of Behavior Change

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James Holland Jones

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Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, Alexander Rose

Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe

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Kim Stanley Robinson

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Bruce Sterling

How to Be Futuristic

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Fred Lyon

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Nicola Twilley

Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere

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Caroline Winterer

The Art and Science of Deep Time:
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Kelly Wanser

Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future?

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Brian Behlendorf

A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future

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Esther Dyson

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Hannu Rajaniemi

The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century

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Shahzeen Attari

Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change

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Judy Wajcman

Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance

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Margaret Levi

The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge

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Rose McDermott

Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits

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Mike Kuniavsky

Our Future in Algorithm Farming

May 17, 02016

Kim Stanley Robinson

How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society

May 10, 02016

Abby Smith Rumsey

How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

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Kara Platoni

Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time

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The Refugee Reality

Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge

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Louis Hyman

The New Deal You Don't Know

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Andy Weir

The Red Planet for Real

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Paul Clarke

The Cocktail Crystal Ball

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Neal Stephenson

Seveneves at The Interval

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Jonathon Keats

Envisioning Deep Time

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Jason Scott

The Web In An Eye Blink

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Jeffrey McGrew

Talking with Robots about Architecture

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Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo

Pace Layers Thinking

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Proof: The Science of Booze

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