THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW: TIME AND RESPONSIBILITY A kind of founding manifesto for The Long Now Foundation written by its president, Stewart Brand, this book is a comprehensive manual of long-term responsibility and a vision for Long Now's future. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

Europe.

SIX WAYS TO THINK LONG-TERM: A COGNITIVE TOOLKIT FOR GOOD Six Ways to Think Long-term. 1. Deep-Time Humility: grasp we are an eyeblink in cosmic time. Deep-time humility is about recognising that the two hundred thousand years that humankind has graced the earth is a mere eyeblink in the cosmic story. DANIEL CLAUSSEN, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Daniel Claussen. Long Now Research Fellow. Daniel Claussen leads the visioning and execution of strategies for early-stage and high-impact ventures that lie at the intersection of culture and environment. A change-making pragmatist, he’s happy doing the dirty work to make things real: brokering multi-party transactions, raising and placing LAURA WELCHER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND THE LONG NOW Laura Welcher is a linguist with research interests in endangered language documentation, description and revitalization, as well as the growing subdiscipline of computer-assisted linguistics. She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she learned first hand the importance of creating digital

language

PODCAST: HOW TO BE FUTURISTIC Bruce Sterling is a futurist, journalist, science-fiction author, and culture critic. He is the author of more than 20 books including ground-breaking science ficiton and non-fiction about hackers, design and the future. He was the editor in 01986 of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) which brought the cyberpunk science fiction

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10 YEARS AGO: BRIAN ENO’S 77 MILLION PAINTINGS IN SAN Long Now co-founders Stewart Brand (center)and Brian Eno (right) in San Francisco, 02007 Exactly a decade ago today, in June 02007, Long Now hosted the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings. It was a celebration of Eno's unique generative art work, as well as the inaugural e THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW: TIME AND RESPONSIBILITY A kind of founding manifesto for The Long Now Foundation written by its president, Stewart Brand, this book is a comprehensive manual of long-term responsibility and a vision for Long Now's future. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

Europe.

SIX WAYS TO THINK LONG-TERM: A COGNITIVE TOOLKIT FOR GOOD Six Ways to Think Long-term. 1. Deep-Time Humility: grasp we are an eyeblink in cosmic time. Deep-time humility is about recognising that the two hundred thousand years that humankind has graced the earth is a mere eyeblink in the cosmic story. DANIEL CLAUSSEN, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Daniel Claussen. Long Now Research Fellow. Daniel Claussen leads the visioning and execution of strategies for early-stage and high-impact ventures that lie at the intersection of culture and environment. A change-making pragmatist, he’s happy doing the dirty work to make things real: brokering multi-party transactions, raising and placing LAURA WELCHER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND THE LONG NOW Laura Welcher is a linguist with research interests in endangered language documentation, description and revitalization, as well as the growing subdiscipline of computer-assisted linguistics. She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she learned first hand the importance of creating digital

language

PODCAST: HOW TO BE FUTURISTIC Bruce Sterling is a futurist, journalist, science-fiction author, and culture critic. He is the author of more than 20 books including ground-breaking science ficiton and non-fiction about hackers, design and the future. He was the editor in 01986 of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) which brought the cyberpunk science fiction

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10 YEARS AGO: BRIAN ENO’S 77 MILLION PAINTINGS IN SAN Long Now co-founders Stewart Brand (center)and Brian Eno (right) in San Francisco, 02007 Exactly a decade ago today, in June 02007, Long Now hosted the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings. It was a celebration of Eno's unique generative art work, as well as the inaugural e ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects

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CHIMES - 10,000 YEAR CLOCK - THE LONG NOW Clock Chime Mechanism. One of the systems absent from any of the early Clock prototypes was a fully functioning chime mechanism. For this Danny Hillis designed a progressive algorithm to ring a series of ten bells in a different sequence each day the Clock is fully wound over the course of 10,000 years. This would be over 3.5 million

permutations.

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Available positions —• Research Coordinator: Organizational Continuity Project • Finance Committee Advisor • Audit Committee Advisor Research Coordinator: Organizational Continuity ProjectSummary — Sourcing and coordinating international researchers (mainly through Upwork) in regions around the world for the Long Now Foundation's Organizational Continuity Project. LONG NOW'S WEBSITE IS CHANGING... Throughout 2021, Long Now will be rolling out a new website. The new site works better across devices and makes it easier to discover what Long Now is all about. Parts of the site will look inconsistent while we work. We appreciate your patience, and we would love to hear SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

Europe.

PETER LEYDEN: THE TRANSFORMATION: A FUTURE HISTORY OF THE Peter Leyden has built the case for this extremely positive yet plausible scenario of the period from 02020 to 02050 as a sequel to the Wired cover story and book he co-authored with Long Now cofounder Peter Schwartz 25 years ago called The Long Boom: The Future History of the World 1980 to 2020. IS TECHNOLOGY MOVING TOO FAST? Is Technology Moving Too Fast? Published on Monday, June 19, 02000 • 20 years, 11 months ago Written by Stewart Brand for Time. The newest technologies--computers, genetic engineering and the emerging field of nanotech--differ from the technologies that preceded them in a

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THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING: A MONTHLY SERIES Seminars About Long-term Thinking is made possible through the generous support of The Long Now Membership and our Seminar Sponsors. We offer $5,000 and $15,000 annual Sponsorships, both of which entitle the sponsor and a guest to reserved seating at all Long Now seminars and special events. In addition, we invite $15,000 Sponsors to attend THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of JAMES NESTOR: THE FUTURE OF BREATHING James Nestor's Wikipedia page. More about James Nestor. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

Europe.

PETER LEYDEN: THE TRANSFORMATION: A FUTURE HISTORY OF THE Peter Leyden has built the case for this extremely positive yet plausible scenario of the period from 02020 to 02050 as a sequel to the Wired cover story and book he co-authored with Long Now cofounder Peter Schwartz 25 years ago called The Long Boom: The Future History of the World 1980 to 2020. SUZANNE SIMARD: MOTHER TREES AND THE SOCIAL FOREST Dr. Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. An active field researcher for decades, her scientific studies and observations built the foundations for our new understanding of the complexity of forest systems. PHILIP TETLOCK: WHY FOXES ARE BETTER FORECASTERS THAN Foxes, on the other hand are skeptical about grand theories, diffident in their forecasts, and ready to adjust their ideas based on actual events. The aggregate success rate of Foxes is significantly greater, Tetlock found, especially in short-term forecasts. And Hedgehogs routinely fare worse than Foxes, especially in long-term forecasts. THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING: A MONTHLY SERIES Seminars About Long-term Thinking is made possible through the generous support of The Long Now Membership and our Seminar Sponsors. We offer $5,000 and $15,000 annual Sponsorships, both of which entitle the sponsor and a guest to reserved seating at all Long Now seminars and special events. In addition, we invite $15,000 Sponsors to attend THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of JAMES NESTOR: THE FUTURE OF BREATHING James Nestor's Wikipedia page. More about James Nestor. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

Europe.

PETER LEYDEN: THE TRANSFORMATION: A FUTURE HISTORY OF THE Peter Leyden has built the case for this extremely positive yet plausible scenario of the period from 02020 to 02050 as a sequel to the Wired cover story and book he co-authored with Long Now cofounder Peter Schwartz 25 years ago called The Long Boom: The Future History of the World 1980 to 2020. SUZANNE SIMARD: MOTHER TREES AND THE SOCIAL FOREST Dr. Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. An active field researcher for decades, her scientific studies and observations built the foundations for our new understanding of the complexity of forest systems. PHILIP TETLOCK: WHY FOXES ARE BETTER FORECASTERS THAN Foxes, on the other hand are skeptical about grand theories, diffident in their forecasts, and ready to adjust their ideas based on actual events. The aggregate success rate of Foxes is significantly greater, Tetlock found, especially in short-term forecasts. And Hedgehogs routinely fare worse than Foxes, especially in long-term forecasts. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating

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long-term thinkers

BLOG OF THE LONG NOW by Ahmed Kabil - Twitter: @ahmedkabil on May 2nd, 02021. Art. Long News. Gutter Street, a London-based theatre company, is premiering a play called The Long Now later this month. “The Long Now is inspired by the work of the @longnow foundation and takes a look at the need to promote long term thinking through our unique Gutter Street Lens

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Available positions —• Research Coordinator: Organizational Continuity Project • Finance Committee Advisor • Audit Committee Advisor Research Coordinator: Organizational Continuity ProjectSummary — Sourcing and coordinating international researchers (mainly through Upwork) in regions around the world for the Long Now Foundation's Organizational Continuity Project. SIX WAYS TO THINK LONG-TERM: A COGNITIVE TOOLKIT FOR GOOD Six Ways to Think Long-term. 1. Deep-Time Humility: grasp we are an eyeblink in cosmic time. Deep-time humility is about recognising that the two hundred thousand years that humankind has graced the earth is a mere eyeblink in the cosmic story.

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Watch over 250 seminars, talks, and interviews on long-term thinkingThe Long Now Foundation's monthly seminars were started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking — to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare. SIGN IN - THE LONG NOW You are acting on behalf of 207.46.13.86 We keep your information safe and hate spam as much as you do. Have a look at our privacy policy to

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The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING: A MONTHLY SERIES Seminars About Long-term Thinking is made possible through the generous support of The Long Now Membership and our Seminar Sponsors. We offer $5,000 and $15,000 annual Sponsorships, both of which entitle the sponsor and a guest to reserved seating at all Long Now seminars and special events. In addition, we invite $15,000 Sponsors to attend THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of JAMES NESTOR: THE FUTURE OF BREATHING James Nestor's Wikipedia page. More about James Nestor. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

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PETER LEYDEN: THE TRANSFORMATION: A FUTURE HISTORY OF THE Peter Leyden has built the case for this extremely positive yet plausible scenario of the period from 02020 to 02050 as a sequel to the Wired cover story and book he co-authored with Long Now cofounder Peter Schwartz 25 years ago called The Long Boom: The Future History of the World 1980 to 2020. SUZANNE SIMARD: MOTHER TREES AND THE SOCIAL FOREST Dr. Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. An active field researcher for decades, her scientific studies and observations built the foundations for our new understanding of the complexity of forest systems. PHILIP TETLOCK: WHY FOXES ARE BETTER FORECASTERS THAN Foxes, on the other hand are skeptical about grand theories, diffident in their forecasts, and ready to adjust their ideas based on actual events. The aggregate success rate of Foxes is significantly greater, Tetlock found, especially in short-term forecasts. And Hedgehogs routinely fare worse than Foxes, especially in long-term forecasts. THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING: A MONTHLY SERIES Seminars About Long-term Thinking is made possible through the generous support of The Long Now Membership and our Seminar Sponsors. We offer $5,000 and $15,000 annual Sponsorships, both of which entitle the sponsor and a guest to reserved seating at all Long Now seminars and special events. In addition, we invite $15,000 Sponsors to attend THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of JAMES NESTOR: THE FUTURE OF BREATHING James Nestor's Wikipedia page. More about James Nestor. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

Europe.

PETER LEYDEN: THE TRANSFORMATION: A FUTURE HISTORY OF THE Peter Leyden has built the case for this extremely positive yet plausible scenario of the period from 02020 to 02050 as a sequel to the Wired cover story and book he co-authored with Long Now cofounder Peter Schwartz 25 years ago called The Long Boom: The Future History of the World 1980 to 2020. SUZANNE SIMARD: MOTHER TREES AND THE SOCIAL FOREST Dr. Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. An active field researcher for decades, her scientific studies and observations built the foundations for our new understanding of the complexity of forest systems. PHILIP TETLOCK: WHY FOXES ARE BETTER FORECASTERS THAN Foxes, on the other hand are skeptical about grand theories, diffident in their forecasts, and ready to adjust their ideas based on actual events. The aggregate success rate of Foxes is significantly greater, Tetlock found, especially in short-term forecasts. And Hedgehogs routinely fare worse than Foxes, especially in long-term forecasts. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING: A MONTHLY SERIES Seminars About Long-term Thinking is made possible through the generous support of The Long Now Membership and our Seminar Sponsors. We offer $5,000 and $15,000 annual Sponsorships, both of which entitle the sponsor and a guest to reserved seating at all Long Now seminars and special events. In addition, we invite $15,000 Sponsors to attend

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PROJECTS - LONG NOW

Clock. A 10,000 year monument to long-term thinking Rosetta. A living archive of 1,500 human languages Talks. New ideas from the best

long-term thinkers

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Available positions —• Research Coordinator: Organizational Continuity Project • Finance Committee Advisor • Audit Committee Advisor Research Coordinator: Organizational Continuity ProjectSummary — Sourcing and coordinating international researchers (mainly through Upwork) in regions around the world for the Long Now Foundation's Organizational Continuity Project. SIX WAYS TO THINK LONG-TERM: A COGNITIVE TOOLKIT FOR GOOD Six Ways to Think Long-term. 1. Deep-Time Humility: grasp we are an eyeblink in cosmic time. Deep-time humility is about recognising that the two hundred thousand years that humankind has graced the earth is a mere eyeblink in the cosmic story.

PROTOTYPE 1

Completed on December 31st 01999. This first prototype of the 10,000 Year Clock is currently on loan to the Science Museum of London, and can be seen as the final piece in the “Making of the Modern World” exhibit. This prototype began to tick on December 31, 01999

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Watch over 250 seminars, talks, and interviews on long-term thinkingThe Long Now Foundation's monthly seminars were started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking — to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare. SIGN IN - THE LONG NOW You are acting on behalf of 207.46.13.86 We keep your information safe and hate spam as much as you do. Have a look at our privacy policy to

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LONG NOW'S WEBSITE IS CHANGING... Throughout 2021, Long Now will be rolling out a new website. The new site works better across devices and makes it easier to discover what Long Now is all about. Parts of the site will look inconsistent while we work. We appreciate your patience, and we would love to hear THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING: A MONTHLY SERIES Seminars About Long-term Thinking is made possible through the generous support of The Long Now Membership and our Seminar Sponsors. We offer $5,000 and $15,000 annual Sponsorships, both of which entitle the sponsor and a guest to reserved seating at all Long Now seminars and special events. In addition, we invite $15,000 Sponsors to attend THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of JAMES NESTOR: THE FUTURE OF BREATHING James Nestor's Wikipedia page. More about James Nestor. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

Europe.

PETER LEYDEN: THE TRANSFORMATION: A FUTURE HISTORY OF THE Peter Leyden has built the case for this extremely positive yet plausible scenario of the period from 02020 to 02050 as a sequel to the Wired cover story and book he co-authored with Long Now cofounder Peter Schwartz 25 years ago called The Long Boom: The Future History of the World 1980 to 2020. SUZANNE SIMARD: MOTHER TREES AND THE SOCIAL FOREST Dr. Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. An active field researcher for decades, her scientific studies and observations built the foundations for our new understanding of the complexity of forest systems. PHILIP TETLOCK: WHY FOXES ARE BETTER FORECASTERS THAN Foxes, on the other hand are skeptical about grand theories, diffident in their forecasts, and ready to adjust their ideas based on actual events. The aggregate success rate of Foxes is significantly greater, Tetlock found, especially in short-term forecasts. And Hedgehogs routinely fare worse than Foxes, especially in long-term forecasts. THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating

INTRODUCTION

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING: A MONTHLY SERIES Seminars About Long-term Thinking is made possible through the generous support of The Long Now Membership and our Seminar Sponsors. We offer $5,000 and $15,000 annual Sponsorships, both of which entitle the sponsor and a guest to reserved seating at all Long Now seminars and special events. In addition, we invite $15,000 Sponsors to attend THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of JAMES NESTOR: THE FUTURE OF BREATHING James Nestor's Wikipedia page. More about James Nestor. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

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PODCAST: HOW TO BE FUTURISTIC The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened. The present moment vanishes before it can be described. Language, a human invention, lacks the power to fully adhere to reality. We live in a very short now and here, since . . . Read THE 10,000-YEAR GENEAOLOGY OF MYTHS The 10,000-Year Geneaology of Myths. The “Shaft Scene” from the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCENES in the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France depicts a confrontation between a man and a bison. The bison appears fixed in place, stabbed by a spear. The man has a bird’s head and is lying 10 YEARS AGO: BRIAN ENO’S 77 MILLION PAINTINGS IN SAN Long Now co-founders Stewart Brand (center)and Brian Eno (right) in San Francisco, 02007 Exactly a decade ago today, in June 02007, Long Now hosted the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings. It was a celebration of Eno's unique generative art work, as well as the inaugural e RETROCOMPUTING BRINGS WARHOL’S LOST DIGITAL ART BACK TO Retrocomputing Brings Warhol’s Lost Digital Art Back to Life. In 01985, Andy Warhol used an Amiga 1000 personal computer and the GraphiCraft software to create a series of digital works. Warhol’s early computer artworks are now viewable after 30 years of dormancy. Commodore International commissioned Warhol to appear at the product

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THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More Become a Member. starting at $8/month. ABOUT - THE LONG NOW About Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW: TIME AND RESPONSIBILITY A kind of founding manifesto for The Long Now Foundation written by its president, Stewart Brand, this book is a comprehensive manual of long-term responsibility and a vision for Long Now's future. SIX WAYS TO THINK LONG-TERM: A COGNITIVE TOOLKIT FOR GOOD Six Ways to Think Long-term. 1. Deep-Time Humility: grasp we are an eyeblink in cosmic time. Deep-time humility is about recognising that the two hundred thousand years that humankind has graced the earth is a mere eyeblink in the cosmic story. LAURA WELCHER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND THE LONG NOW Laura Welcher is a linguist with research interests in endangered language documentation, description and revitalization, as well as the growing subdiscipline of computer-assisted linguistics. She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she learned first hand the importance of creating digital

language

PODCAST: HOW TO BE FUTURISTIC The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened. The present moment vanishes before it can be described. Language, a human invention, lacks the power to fully adhere to reality. We live in a very short now and here, since . . . Read THE 10,000-YEAR GENEAOLOGY OF MYTHS The 10,000-Year Geneaology of Myths. The “Shaft Scene” from the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCENES in the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France depicts a confrontation between a man and a bison. The bison appears fixed in place, stabbed by a spear. The man has a bird’s head and is lying 10 YEARS AGO: BRIAN ENO’S 77 MILLION PAINTINGS IN SAN Long Now co-founders Stewart Brand (center)and Brian Eno (right) in San Francisco, 02007 Exactly a decade ago today, in June 02007, Long Now hosted the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings. It was a celebration of Eno's unique generative art work, as well as the inaugural e RETROCOMPUTING BRINGS WARHOL’S LOST DIGITAL ART BACK TO Retrocomputing Brings Warhol’s Lost Digital Art Back to Life. In 01985, Andy Warhol used an Amiga 1000 personal computer and the GraphiCraft software to create a series of digital works. Warhol’s early computer artworks are now viewable after 30 years of dormancy. Commodore International commissioned Warhol to appear at the product

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The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects THE BIG HERE AND LONG NOW The Big Here and Long Now by Brian Eno. It was 1978. I was new to New York. A rich acquaintance had invited me to a housewarming party, and, as my cabdriver wound his way down increasingly potholed and dingy streets, I began wondering whether he'd got the address right. SAMO BURJA, LONG NOW RESEARCH FELLOW Samo Burja. Long Now Research Fellow. Email samo@longnow.org Twitter @samoburja. Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and

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JAMES NESTOR: THE FUTURE OF BREATHING Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic SIX WAYS TO THINK LONG-TERM: A COGNITIVE TOOLKIT FOR GOODLONG TERM GOALS FOR COGNITIONCOGNITIVE COMMUNICATION LONG TERM GOALSCOGNITIVE GOALS FOR ADULTSANOTHER TERM FOR LONG TERMBLM LONG TERM CAMPINGIS LONG

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