Travel to new worlds, completing missions to help save and protect the planets and their people from dangerous Space Pirates, to powerful Marauders and other hostile factions. Membership levels start at $8/month and include lots of benefits.Take command of a fleet of powerful starships in this adventure-driven strategy game from legendary designer Sid Meier. Long Now members can watch the full ten years of Seminars in HD. Seminar audio is available to all via podcast.Įveryone can watch full video of the last 12 Long Now Seminars (including this Seminar video until late June 02014). It is curated and hosted by Long Now’s President Stewart Brand. The Seminars About Long-term Thinking series began in 02003 and is presented each month live in San Francisco. He is a co-founding Board Member of The Long Now Foundation and has spoken in our SALT series on four occasions. In 01988 Peter co-founded Global Business Network and served as their chairman until 02011. Currently he serves as Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations and Strategic Planning at. Peter Schwartz is a futurist, scenario planning expert, and author of The Art of the Long View.
Relativistic ships: at near the speed of light, time compresses, so that travelers may experience only 10 years while 100 years pass back on Earth.Sleep ships: like in the movie “Avatar,” travelers go into hibernation.Generational ships: whole mini-societies commit to voyages that only their descendants will complete.Standard-physics travel will require extremely long voyages, much longer than a human lifetime. Long Now members can see all Seminar videos in HD.įrom Stewart Brand’s summary of this Seminar (in full here ): Listen to SALT audio free on our Seminar pages and via podcast. The Starships ARE Coming is a recent SALT talk, free for public viewing until September 02014. Video of the 12 most recent Seminars is free for all to view.
Our September Seminar About Long-term Thinking (SALT) “flashbacks” highlight Space-themed talks, as we lead up to Ariel Waldman’s The Future of Human Space Flightat The Interval, September 30th, 02014. In September 02013 futurist Peter Schwartz spoke for Long Now about realistic scenarios for human interstellar travel. Peter, a founding Long Now Board member, participated in “ The 100-year Starship” project and contributed to the book Starship Century (Edited by Gregory Benford and James Benford) with scientists and science fiction authors positing realistic ways humanity could voyage beyond our Solar System. Audio Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming - A Seminar Flashback
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