Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture’s (FMCAC) resident organization The Long Now Foundation has introduced online and limited in-person versions of its popular “Seminars About Long-Term Thinking” (SALT) series. The upcoming seminars are available to the public as live streaming events on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Long Now Live. Hundreds of seminars since the beginning of the SALT program in 2003 are also available to view in the seminar archives.

The next SALT live streaming events are —

• Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 7:00 p.m. PST — FutureMap founder, data visualization specialist, and globalization scenario modeler Parag Khanna explains “Why Mobility Is Destiny.” This seminar is also happening live at the San Francisco Jazz Center.
• Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 7:00 p.m. PST — Famed science and speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson reads from his visionary new climate thriller, Termination Shock at the in-person and live-streaming event “Termination Shock.” This seminar is also happening live at the San Francisco Jazz Center.