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’25’26
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23 from 27 Nov 2025 to 22 Oct 2026
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monthly (23 in the last year)
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magazine

2026 22

  1. The Streams Underfoot
  2. Attention is All You Need
  3. Announcing the First Long Now Labs Awardees
  4. The Echo of Deep Time
  5. A Library to Die For
  6. To Save Democracy, Look to the Arctic Woolly Bear Moth
  7. Introducing Long Now Labs: Where Long-term Thinking Becomes Long-term Practice
  8. Our Next Stewards
  9. The Tower of Civilization
  10. How Institutions Learn
  11. The Fifth Era of Science: Artificial Scientific Intelligence
  12. Civilizational Optionality
  13. Eric Ries Takes the Long View
  14. Lynn Rothschild Takes the Long View
  15. It’s Good to Be Infrastructure
  16. Why Haven't We Seen a Photograph of the Whole Earth Yet?
  17. Beyond Living Coral
  18. I’ve Got to Admit, It’s Getting Better
  19. The Essential Art of Civilization
  20. Nature Does Not Ask Me
  21. On Meaning
  22. Anatomy of an AI System

2025 1

  1. No Film Left Unscanned