Location: Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center San Francisco, CA 94123
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 7 – 8:30pm PDT
A Logic For The Future, San Francisco, CA
Making the argument for “acupuncture philanthropy,” in which little financial investments are used to spark bigger systemic transformation.
The Long Now Foundation welcomes
Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson
A Logic for the Future: International Relations in the Era of Turbulence
Attend the Long Now Talks in person or through our webcast.
Mix and mix with other attendees over beverages and light foods at our pre- and post-show reception in the reimagined Cowell Theater Lobby!
Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson will highlight our polycrisis, as well as the rapid and comprehensive transformation of global governance structures required to address these pressing transnational and planetary concerns.
We are living in an era of unprecedented complexity and turbulence. What characterizes this epoch in human history is the convergence of forces—political, geostrategic, economic, social, technical, and environmental—and their interplay. These crises know no borders and are unresponsive to remedies conceived and executed by individual nations or the existing ecosystem of multilateral institutions.
Throughout history, we can identify examples of pivotal periods when human perseverance, ingenuity, and cooperation fueled previously unthinkable progress. We are in an elasticity phase, which means we have more room to expand our ideas about global connections and the international system. Humanity must seek to create an international framework that can lead us to a more peaceful, more humane, and more equitable global society, as well as a thriving planetary ecosystem
