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About - The Long Now

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Published monthly, the member newsletter gives in-depth and behind the scenes updates on Long Now's projects. Special updates on the 10,000 Year Clock project are posted on the members only Clock Blog. 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 culture and help make long-term thinking more common. We hope to foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Below is an essay by a founding board member Stewart Brand on the need for, and the mechanism by which, The Long Now Foundation is attempting to encourage long-term thinking. Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the

“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.…

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