LONG NOW — fostering long term thinking

A nonprofit encouraging imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next & last 10,000 years — or the long now.

“Civilizations with longer nows look after things better.” — Brian Eno Cofounder now, nowadays, the long nowtodayyesterdaytomorrow3 days“now”this decadelast decadenext decade30 years“nowadays”08000 BCE02000 CE12000 CE20,000 years“the long now”DigitalrevolutionIndustrialrevolutionIseShrineGiza pyramids& StonehengeFirstcitiesAgricultureinvented01980 CE01760 CE00004 BCE02500 BCE04000 BCE07000 BCE08000 BCEGlaciersretreat We believe a world that operates at the timescale of civilization — a world that takes the long-term past and long-term future seriously — would operate very differently.…

saved by

• Svitlana Midianko
• Linda
• Ryan Washburne
• Lydia Nottingham
• Clo Wang
• Alex Wang

related reading

• Long Nowlongnow.org
• Alexander Roselongnow.org
• The Big Here and Long Now — LONG NOW IDEASlongnow.org
• The Big Here and Long Now — LONG NOW IDEASlongnow.org
• The Intervallongnow.org
• The 10,000-Year Clock: A Monument To Long-Term Thinkingnoemamag.com
• Stewart Brand explains concepts of change, pacetallahassee.com
• Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic - Salon.comsalon.com
• Stewart Brandsb.longnow.org
• How Long is Now? — LONG NOW IDEASlongnow.org
• The Millennium Clock — LONG NOW IDEASlongnow.org
• The Techno-Optimists: The Longtermiststechnologicalmetamodernism.substack.com