 The purpose of the series is to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
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 The 10,000 Year Clock Project was conceived by Danny Hillis as a monument to long term thinking. The design development on the Clock began in 01997 and has generated an early prototype, an orrery like planetary display, and several machanical and design patents.
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 The Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project website is now the largest collection of linguistic data on the Net. You can view, comment or add to the material we have collected in over 2300 languages.
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 On the Long Bets web site you can make predictions or bets about future events of importance. We now have lower betting minimums, voting, and discussions.
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 As the first step toward building a 10,000-year clock, The Long
Now Foundation has purchased desert mountain land adjoining Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.
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 The Long Now Foundation has held a series of Past Events since 01998 on digital continuity, long term libraries and our Rosetta Project.
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