Charlotte Jones writes about politics and cultural history. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder.

Laura Jayne is a writer, harm reduction advocate and communications professional, specializing in the non-profit space.  

Johanna Hoffman is an urbanist, researcher, and writer working in the space between design, planning, fiction, and futures. She specializes in developing tools, tactics, and strategies for navigating greater degrees of urban uncertainty and change. A founder of the research and action institute Design for Adaptation, she uses strategic planning and speculative practice to help communities, cities, and organizations survey the impacts of potential futures

Grant McCracken is an anthropologist who studies American cultures. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He's the author of 14 books. The most recent is The Return of the Artisan, published in 02022 by Simon and Schuster.  

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, editor and futurist. He is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (02022), as well as over twenty short stories, which have appeared in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and many more.  He is an Imaginary College Fellow at the Arizona State University Center

Andrew Mambondiyani is a journalist based in Zimbabwe with bylines in local, regional and international publications including BBC, MIT Technology Review, The Telegraph, Aljazeera and Vice News among others.

James Steck lives in Virginia and teaches high school English. His poetry has appeared with many print and online magazines and journals such as Heroin Love Songs, The Wild Word, Tiny Spoon Lit. Magazine, Oddball Magazine, Better Than Starbucks, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh: Recasting Masculinity, among others. He has been a writer in residence with The Inner Loop's Summer Residency and

Eleonor Botoman is currently a master’s student in NYU’s Experimental Humanities and Museum Studies program where she studies environmental justice and climate change impacts in the art world. They have previously held positions at Brooklyn Art Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Center for Architecture. Their art and literary criticism has appeared in C Magazine, Artforum, CURSOR, and more. When she’

Zeb Larson is a writer and historian based in Columbus, Ohio. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he did his PhD at Ohio State and focused on anti-apartheid organizing in the United States.

Allegra Rosenberg is a writer and fangirl based in Brooklyn. She currently writes a weekly column for the Garbage Day newsletter on Substack and is studying at NYU's Experimental Humanities program.  

Adam M. Lowenstein is a freelance journalist who writes Reframe Your Inbox, an email newsletter of essays and interviews about corporate power, capitalism, and politics. He previously worked as a speechwriter in the U.S. Senate. He is working on his second book.

Vincent Ialenti is a cultural anthropologist who studies the various ways in which human communities understand time and envision the future. He is currently a Berggruen Fellow at the University of Southern California. His recent book, Deep Time Reckoning, is an anthropological exploration of how Finland’s nuclear waste experts pondered distant future ecosystems and the limits of knowledge. Vincent’s research has been supported

Patrick’s works include the award-winning films Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality, The Philosopher Kings, La Source, and In Pursuit of Silence. His films have received 24 awards and 12 nominations, and have been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, N.Y. Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. In 02009, Patrick received the Emerging Cinematic Vision Award from Camden

Alice Riddell is a writer and researcher originally from the U.K. She is currently living in New York, having completed a Masters at NYU's Experimental Humanities program, where she was Editor-in-Chief of an interdisciplinary journal called Caustic Frolic. Alice’s academic background is grounded in Cultural Anthropology and she has worked in New York in mayoral political science for the last year. She is

From a family of developers and entrepreneurs, he started writing code at 12. He has since filled many roles, but for the last 15 years he has alternated between leading the technical side of ambitious products and advising others on how to make systems and teams run well.

To learn more about him, a good place to start is his LinkedIn profile. He comments occasionally

A PhD Candidate in American Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, Julie Momméja has been a  Scholar-in-Residence at Long Now since January 02015.

Fascinated by San Francisco twentieth century cultural history and the emergence of technology as a social tool, her academic research focuses on longtime local actors within the counterculture and cyberculture spheres - Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand among them.

With the intent

Tony Hansmann's Open Source Consulting (OSC) has spent a decade working with companies using UNIX/Linux compute-farms to deliver their product. We have developed a reliable method for establishing and running large scale IT operations.

Tony has helped Long Now with setting up and maintaining its digital infrastructure, and periodically coming out to the Clock site to provide us with mango sticky rice.

Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield is devoted to helping navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and helping cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers — a practice that feeds his synthetic and transdisciplinary "mind-jazz" performances

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

Stewart Dickson received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1981 and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. The primary result of his undergraduate career was a United States Patent for a stringed musical instrument with electrical feedback, 1981.

Mr. Dickson's first professional one-man exhibition of sculpture and computer-assisted art was in 1982.

Stewart Dickson

Austin joined the Foundation's staff in August 02007.  He's worked on the Seminars About Long-term Thinking, Long Bets, the Membership program, written for Long Views and the Quarterly Newsletters and helped manage the Museum & Store.  The inner- and inter-workings of things - especially brains, cities, evolution and computers - fascinate him.  He is pleased by recursion.

Davide Bocelli has been helping Long Now speak Italian for more than a decade now (almost two). He has organized or been a guest and keynote speaker to conferences in Italy. He is also the translator of Stewart Brand's "The Clock of the Long Now" in Italian, with a special foreword by Brian Eno. And he's the author of several blog posts for the Blog

Dr. Greg Baiden is Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Penguin Automated Systems Inc., a leading research and development company that provides mobile robotic technology solutions for numerous industries.

Dr. Baiden holds a PhD in Mining Engineering with a speciality in technology and economics and is a Professor at the Laurentian University School of Engineering where he teaches Mining and Automation Robotics.  In 02001, he

Peter Leyden has spent his career figuring out the future and helping others see what’s probably coming and what’s possible to bring about. Since coming to San Francisco 25 years ago to work with the founders of Wired magazine, he’s been both a creator in the world of ideas, and an innovator in organizations pioneering new fields.

In the entrepreneurial realm, Leyden

Languages: I work primarily on African languages, with a focus on Niger-Congo, and have done fieldwork on the Beboid languages of Northwest Cameroon. I have also worked on Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole (showing a good deal of West African influence in its lexicon and grammar), and Chechen (which has very little in common with the African languages I study, as far as I can tell)

Ben Keating joined us in 02003. Originally brought on for system administration, Ben also took lead on the design and development of software, websites and branding. Learn more about his work on benjaminkeating.com.

Paolo is a world renowned bicycle designer and builder who joined our team in 02000. He was a principal engineer on several early Clock prototypes.