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, July 27, 2021, 5:00 p.m. PST — Political scientist Prerna Singh addresses “State, Society & Vaccines.”
• 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.
• Thursday, September 9, 2021, 12:30 p.m. PST — Technology historian and clock and timekeeping expert David Rooney presents “A History Of Civilization In 12 Clocks.”
• Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 5:00 p.m. PST — FutureMap founder, data visualization specialist, and globalization scenario modeler Parag Khanna explains “Why Mobility Is Destiny.”