The reason Hermione Lee’s TOM STOPPARD is such a compelling read: She chronicles what Stoppard’s mind and life are PRODUCING along with what his mind and life are doing. It’s such a juicy sampler of his work it makes you glad of its 871 pages.

From the first web page to today’s sprawling internet, the web has reshaped how we live, learn & connect. 🌐 Hear Sir @TimBerners_Lee & @Brewster_Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast discussing the web’s explosive growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come. 🎧

🌐 From dial-up to a trillion pages, we’ve built a web worth remembering. Watch THE WEB WE’VE BUILT, a cinematic journey through our shared digital history & preserved pages in the Wayback Machine. Our web is a story of connection, creativity, and triumph. 🎬

From our Social Radars taping yesterday. We never plan to coordinate our outfits, but for some reason we always seem to.

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocols that built the Internet, celebrates the Internet Archive reaching 1 trillion pages & reflects on why preserving our digital history matters for generations to come. More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/12/voi… #Wayback1T vinton g cerf

"What if the most important thing you do echoes far beyond your own lifetime?" New course on long term thinking from Roman Krznaric youtube.com/watch?v=5oalyT…

“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.” — John Cage

"A truly historic accomplishment," as NPR President & CEO Katherine Maher puts it: “1 trillion web pages. That’s 1 trillion artifacts and snapshots of our interconnected world.” 🎬 Maher reflects on why preserving our digital record matters more than ever, & the crucial role of

Did you think bricks made from mushrooms would be squishy? Think again. NASA’s Lynn Rothschild demonstrates how mycelium could make durable construction materials for the moon and Mars.

97 years ago today, Steamboat Willie paddled onto the screen. 🚢🐭 In 2024, this iconic cartoon entered the public domain, opening new possibilities for sharing, remixing & reimagining. Follow us for Public Domain Day 2026 announcements & celebrations! 👀 Watch the full

I'm humbled by the people I admire who offered blurbs for my now-preorderable MAINTENANCE book. Kyle Wiens Kyle Wiens. Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly. Matt Ridley Matt Ridley. Bruce Sterling Chinese Roomba 中国产机器人吸尘器. 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗. George Dyson. And Danny

Now that you've preordered Stewart Brand's new book, read an exclusive excerpt on Ideas, the Long Now blog: longnow.org/ideas/the-esse…

Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with little more than rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. Easily lost, they are irreplaceable treasures. 🦃 This #Thanksgiving, celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn

“Into the Time Horizon” is a stunning exhibition currently running at The Nevada Museum of Art. It invites visitors to consider how to move forward on our planet—ethically, responsibly, and with care for coming generations. Featuring art (pictured here) from Jeffrey Gibson, “The

"From the slow churn of tectonic plates to the self-organizing intelligence of microbial colonies and the feedback loops of climate-modifying technologies. The planet is not inert. It acts and shapes the conditions under which political life unfolds." mothrights.org/article/planet…

Drawn from nearly 300 newly unearthed archival films, Lost Landscapes 20 recreates everyday life in San Francisco as far back as 1897. Since 02000, Prelinger Archives (Rick Prelinger W6XBE), in collaboration with Internet Archive, has digitized thousands of films, many of them home movies

The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed. @Brewster_Kahle says people clearly want access to the internet’s past. Hear Kahle (Internet Archive), Vint Cerf (Google), Cindy Cohn (EFF) & Jon Stokes (Ars Technica) explore the past, present & future

2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts. From investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times to video features from the BBC and CNN, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s

"Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth" Astronauts orbited the Moon for the first time in history on Christmas Eve, 1968. On their fourth orbit, they captured the sight of the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon, a photo dubbed "Earthrise."

On this day in 1968, the Earthrise photo was taken from Apollo 8, and it changed the world. What’s now known as the “overview effect,” this one image created a cognitive shift, allowing us to see Earth as one interconnected system. Why seeing the whole Earth from space changed