Pace Layers 02024 Annual Journal

Long Now’s annual print journal explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment through essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, and visual art. The journal takes its name and shape from Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand’s pace layers framework — a tool for thinking about how civilizations work. 

Why Long Now, now? It is precisely in times of compounding crisis that investing in the long view offers the greatest leverage and insight. At a moment of generational transition for Long Now, the inaugural issue is a compendium of ideas, art, and insights from the remarkable community that has formed around our organization over the past quarter-century, as well as a glimpse into our plans for our second quarter-century.

Featuring a founder’s note by Stewart Brand; Long Now Talks by Benjamin Barber, Lera Boroditsky, Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz, James Fallows, Denise Hearn, Kevin Kelly, Jenny Odell, and Michael Tubbs; essays by Forrest Brown, Paul Constance, Taras Grescoe, Johanna Hoffman, Vincent Ialenti, Ahmed Kabil, Leo Kim, Jacob Kuppermann, Allegra Rosenberg, A’liya Spinner, and Jamie Stantonian; interviews with Jonathan Blake & Nils Gilman, Danny Hillis, and Jonathon Keats; fiction by Xander Balwit and Andrew Dana Hudson; poetry by Eleonor Botoman; art by Casey Cripe, Alicia Eggert, and Brian Eno; and photography by Christopher Michel. 

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