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. [Learn more about Pace Layers](https://longnow.org/pacelayers/)
Announcing Pace Layers
The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning · Journal of Design and Science
Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.
Article: Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.
The Story Behind our Brand Illustration
Our brand illustration shows three layers: the foundation being built, the valley we're stuck in, and the world waiting above. Here's what it all means.
The Daily Planet #122: More on Deep Time - The Daily Planet
The Daily Planet #123: Deep Time Impermanence - The Daily Planet
The Public Domain Review
Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
Zechen Zhang on Twitter / X
1/ For nearly 350 years, science has communicated itself through one object: the paper. A linear narrative, frozen as a PDF, written for a human reader. We've come to treat that format as the medium of science itself.It doesn't have to be. It's a historical artifact. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/P5UUhceLkC— Zechen Zhang (@ZechenZhang5) April 30, 2026
The Daily Planet #120: Deep Time Continued - The Daily Planet
The Daily Planet #119: On Deep Time - The Daily Planet
Libra Season: iPhone Modernism by Travis Diehl
The shock-of-the-new is back in literature, rebooted for screen time – and with it, the question: To what end should writing reflect our networked selves?
DeepSeek
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
Pace Layers and AI Integration - The Phoenix Architecture
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Had to put some thoughts to digital paper on my recent journey.
The Power of a Well Built Community
mihaizaurus.leaflet.pub