Organizational Continuity Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Organizational Continuity Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER Culture Saints Without a Cause The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners. By John Last Announcements Honoring Alexander Rose A tribute to Alexander Rose as he steps down from his role as Long Now's founding Executive Director, as told by the people who know him best. By Jacob Kuppermann Organizational Continuity Learning from the World’s Longest-lived Organizations How can companies and organizations that have survived through centuries help us understand how to build the multi-generational institutions needed for today's civilizational challenges? By Alexander Rose Organizational Continuity Scenario Planning for the Long-term Combining imagination and analytic realism to make better decisions about the future By Peter Schwartz Organizational Continuity Long-term Building in Japan It is striking that this part of Japan houses two sets of structures, both of nearly equal age, and both made of largely ephemeral materials that have lasted over 14 centuries through totally different mechanisms and religions. By Alexander Rose Organizational Continuity Long-Lived Institutions Designing and building a mechanical device to last 10,000 years is a hard project. Designing an institution to last alongside it is a harder project. By Alexander Rose Organizational Continuity The Data of Long-lived Institutions Preliminary returns research into the longest-lived institutions in the world. By Alexander Rose
Culture Saints Without a Cause The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners. By John Last
Announcements Honoring Alexander Rose A tribute to Alexander Rose as he steps down from his role as Long Now's founding Executive Director, as told by the people who know him best. By Jacob Kuppermann
Organizational Continuity Learning from the World’s Longest-lived Organizations How can companies and organizations that have survived through centuries help us understand how to build the multi-generational institutions needed for today's civilizational challenges? By Alexander Rose
Organizational Continuity Scenario Planning for the Long-term Combining imagination and analytic realism to make better decisions about the future By Peter Schwartz
Organizational Continuity Long-term Building in Japan It is striking that this part of Japan houses two sets of structures, both of nearly equal age, and both made of largely ephemeral materials that have lasted over 14 centuries through totally different mechanisms and religions. By Alexander Rose
Organizational Continuity Long-Lived Institutions Designing and building a mechanical device to last 10,000 years is a hard project. Designing an institution to last alongside it is a harder project. By Alexander Rose
Organizational Continuity The Data of Long-lived Institutions Preliminary returns research into the longest-lived institutions in the world. By Alexander Rose