Former journalist Katherine Fulton is president of the Monitor Institute and co-author of Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-First Century Philanthropists. Richard Rockefeller (4th ...

A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that ...

Maybe our best bet of finding out what’s Out There in the universe is to extend our reach not into the vastness of space but ...

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, lecturer, and author focusing on contemplative end-of-life care. His book is The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. It’s a ...

is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. It is still being assembled deep inside a mountain in west Texas. The Clock provides a rare invitation to think and engineer at the ...

One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, ...

These are the principles that Danny Hillis used in the initial stages of designing a 10,000 Year Clock. We have found these are generally good principles for designing anything to last a long time. It ...

A professor at Stanford since 1995, Ian Morris founded and directed the Stanford Archaeology Center and ran a dig in Sicily that dates to the 7th century BCE, chaired the Classics Department, and ...

Ecologically, the past is always present if you know where and how to look. Paleontologist-biologist-artist Laura Cunningham spent 20 years exploring California's archives and relic lands to ...

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His newest book on the history and future of long-term thinking is The Good Ancestor: A Radical ...