Sean’s Blog

The SALT Lectures (Seminars About Long-Term Thinking) are lectures put on about the future hosted by the Long Now Foundation.  Long now invites some of the biggest thinkers in science, history, philosophy, and literature to talk about where they see humanity headed in the next ten thousnad years and what we can learn from the previous ten thousand.

The lectures are between an hour and an hour and a half then followed by a question and answer session.  The speakers are divers and very entertaining.  Francis Fukuyama, Bruce Sterling, Jared Diamond, Vernor Vinge, Sam Harris are just a few.   I recently listened to a talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan) which was very informative and entertaining.

My one gripe would be that (at least some) these lectures appear to be slide shows.  Most of the time this is no big deal, but I have heard at least one that was somewhat hard to follow since I could not see the slides.

If you are looking for some very intellectually stimulating material from some of todays important thinkers, check out the the Seminars About Long-Term Thinking.  You’ll feel smarter for it.

Link to the podcasts.