Essays

Time In The 10,000-Year Clock

Published on Thursday, February 9, 02012 • 1 year, 3 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for American Astronomical Society

A Proposal for Meaningful Change in Washington. (Really)

Published on Monday, June 20, 02011 • 1 year, 11 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Huffington Post

The Future Will Have to Wait

Published on Sunday, January 22, 02006 • 7 years, 4 months ago
Written by Michael Chabon for Details

The Fundamentals

Published on Wednesday, February 16, 02005 • 8 years, 3 months ago
Written by Roger Kennedy for The Long Now Foundation

Why the West Is Burning

Published on Saturday, February 16, 02002 • 11 years, 3 months ago
Written by Roger Kennedy for New York Times

Pharaoh Dreamed

Published on Wednesday, January 16, 02002 • 11 years, 4 months ago
Written by Stewart Brand for The Long Now Foundation

Is Technology Moving Too Fast?

Published on Monday, June 19, 02000 • 12 years, 11 months ago
Written by Stewart Brand for Time

Taking the Long View

Published on Wednesday, April 26, 02000 • 13 years, 1 month ago
Written by Stewart Brand for Time

The Singularity

Published on Monday, August 16, 01999 • 13 years, 9 months ago
Written by Stewart Brand for The Long Now Foundation

Anxiously Waiting for the Millenium

Published on Wednesday, June 16, 01999 • 13 years, 11 months ago
Written by Paul Saffo for The Long Now Foundation

The Library

Published on Friday, May 28, 01999 • 14 years ago
Written by Stewart Brand for The Times Higer Education

The real Y2K bug

Published on Saturday, May 8, 01999 • 14 years ago
Written by Paul Saffo for Salon.com

Reframing the Problems

Published on Thursday, February 11, 01999 • 14 years, 3 months ago
Written by Stewart Brand for

Impatient Pendulum

Published on Thursday, July 16, 01998 • 14 years, 10 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Forbes

The Big Picture

Published on Saturday, May 16, 01998 • 15 years ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Wired

Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior or, The Songs of Eden

Published on Monday, March 16, 01998 • 15 years, 2 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Daedalus

Why Do We Buy The Myth Of Y2k?

Published on Monday, February 16, 01998 • 15 years, 3 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Newsweek

Written on the Wind

Published on Wednesday, February 11, 01998 • 15 years, 3 months ago
Written by Stewart Brand for Civilization

A Time of Transition/The Human Connection

Published on Wednesday, April 16, 01997 • 16 years, 1 month ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Association for Computing Machinery

The Millennium Clock

Published on Thursday, February 16, 01995 • 18 years, 3 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Wired

Two Questions

Published on Friday, February 10, 01995 • 18 years, 3 months ago
Written by Stewart Brand for Wired

The Big Here and Long Now

Published on Sunday, January 15, 01995 • 18 years, 4 months ago
Written by Brian Eno for The Long Now Foundation

Why physicists like models, and why biologists should

Published on Tuesday, February 16, 01993 • 20 years, 3 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Current Biology

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

Published on Sunday, January 15, 01989 • 24 years, 4 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for Physics Today

Balancing a Design

Published on Monday, February 16, 01987 • 26 years, 3 months ago
Written by Danny Hillis for IEEE Spectrum