Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture’s resident organization The Long Now Foundation has introduced online versions of its popular “Seminars About Long-Term Thinking” (SALT) series. The upcoming seminars are going to be 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 —

• Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 5:00 p.m. PST — Sean Carroll discusses “The Passage Of Time And The Meaning of Life.”
• Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 5:00 p.m. PST — WIRED senior correspondent Adam Rogers presents “Full Spectrum: The Science Of Color And Modern Human Perception.” Rogers’ new title, Full Spectrum: The Science Of Color And Modern Human Perception, arrives May 18, 2021.
• Tuesday, June 15, 2021, 5:00 p.m. PST — Suzanne Simard speaks about “Mother Trees And The Social Forest.” Simard is Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, leader of The Mother Tree Project, and author of Finding The Mother Tree: Discovering The Wisdom Of The Forest.
• Monday, July 12, 2021, 11:00 a.m. PST — Eric Debrah Otchere shares research on “Sonic Spaces: A Psychology Of Music And Work.” Dr. Otchere heads the Department Of Music And Dance at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is currently a Fellow at Stanford University’s Center For Advanced Study In The Behavioral Sciences.
• Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 12:30 p.m. PST — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab research specialist Kate Darling addresses “The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future.” She is the author of The New Breed: What Our History With Animals Reveals About Our Future With Robots.