Jacob Kuppermann

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Christopher Michel Captures The Long Now

1 month ago | longnow.org | Jacob Kuppermann

The Long Now Foundation is proud to announce Christopher Michel as its first Artist-in-Residence. A distinguished photographer and visual storyteller, Michel has documented Long Now’s founders and visionaries — including Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Danny Hillis, Esther Dyson, and many of its board members and speakers — for decades. Through his portrait photographs, he has captured their work in long-term thinking, deep time, and the future of civilization.
Macrodoses #4

Sep 29, 2024 | joinreboot.org | Jacob Kuppermann |Shira Abramovich |Hamidah Oderinwale |Hannah Scott

Reboot Macrodoses are an informal ~weekly dump of what our editorial board is reading, watching, playing, seeing online, thinking about, or otherwise experiencing. It includes mini-essays, links, pictures, plus perspectives from our beautiful brilliant readers—if you’d like to publish a 250-word Letter to the Editor about our previous essays, you can now do so here.
Celebrating The Interval’s Decennial

Jun 19, 2024 | longnow.org | Jacob Kuppermann

There’s no place like The Interval. There are plenty of cafés where you can work and socialize all over the city — but only one where you can do so among a world-class collection of the books most essential to sustain or rebuild civilization, an eight foot tall Orrery to orient you in real time to your place in our solar system, and an infinitely-shifting piece of generative art by Brian Eno.
Becoming "Children of a Modest Star"

Apr 23, 2024 | longnow.org | Jacob Kuppermann

The point of Children of a Modest Star, the new book by Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute, is simple: planetary crises require planetary solutions. But what does it mean to think about our problems – and the structures we make to solve them – using what Blake and Gilman refer to as “Planetary Thinking”? Children of a Modest Star is an ambitious book.
What We Don't Know About World Population History

Nov 3, 2023 | longnow.org | Jacob Kuppermann

Our knowledge of the past is inherently imperfect. With every passing moment, information about the present fades and is lost as it recedes into the expanses of memory, never to be recalled. That doesn't mean that there's no point in trying to learn about our history, to expand the corpus of knowledge we have reclaimed from the entropic force of forgetting — but it does mean we have to be aware of our limits when we attempt to gain understanding from the past.
The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog

Oct 13, 2023 | longnow.org | Jacob Kuppermann

When the Whole Earth Catalog arrived in the Fall of 01968, it came bearing a simple, epochal label: “Access to Tools.” As its editor and Long Now Co-founder Stewart Brand wrote in the introduction to that first edition, the goal was for the Catalog to serve as an “evaluation and access device” for tools that empowered its readers “to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested.” The key word in all of that...
Getting in Touch with "Your Future Self"

Aug 1, 2023 | longnow.org | Jacob Kuppermann |Hal Hershfield

We often think about long-term thinking as something that goes beyond the individual — projects that span generations, or intellectual movements and cultures that have lasted through centuries and millennia. But long-term thinking can also be something that you practice in your daily life — the choices we make about everything from our careers to the communities we make our own. Yet making those decisions is sometimes easier said than done.