Essays 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 Long-term Thinking Reframing the Future Thoughts from The Long Now Foundation’s new Board President on dancing with ideas. By Patrick Dowd Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand Art A Film 600 Years in the Making Two filmmakers are two years into production on a new film exploring slowness, long-term thinking, and our relationship with time. If all goes as planned, they'll be at it for another six centuries. By Patrick Shen The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher Art In Real Time Life by nature is fleeting. It does not outlast time. Our life is finite and time continues. It is one of the great condolences it can offer. By Brittany Cox Organizational Continuity Scenario Planning for the Long-term Combining imagination and analytic realism to make better decisions about the future By Peter Schwartz Long-term Thinking Six Ways to Think Long-term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy. By Roman Krznaric Essays The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement We are remaking ourselves, and we need to choose wisely what we are to become. By Danny Hillis Nevada Bristlecone Preserve The Long Now Foundation and a Great Basin Mountain Observatory for Long Science Mount Washington is a site for the world's oldest living trees — and perhaps more monuments to long-term thinking. By Laura Welcher Organizational Continuity The Data of Long-lived Institutions Preliminary returns research into the longest-lived institutions in the world. By Alexander Rose
Long-term Thinking Reframing the Future Thoughts from The Long Now Foundation’s new Board President on dancing with ideas. By Patrick Dowd
Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand
Art A Film 600 Years in the Making Two filmmakers are two years into production on a new film exploring slowness, long-term thinking, and our relationship with time. If all goes as planned, they'll be at it for another six centuries. By Patrick Shen
The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher
Art In Real Time Life by nature is fleeting. It does not outlast time. Our life is finite and time continues. It is one of the great condolences it can offer. By Brittany Cox
Organizational Continuity Scenario Planning for the Long-term Combining imagination and analytic realism to make better decisions about the future By Peter Schwartz
Long-term Thinking Six Ways to Think Long-term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy. By Roman Krznaric
Essays The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement We are remaking ourselves, and we need to choose wisely what we are to become. By Danny Hillis
Nevada Bristlecone Preserve The Long Now Foundation and a Great Basin Mountain Observatory for Long Science Mount Washington is a site for the world's oldest living trees — and perhaps more monuments to long-term thinking. By Laura Welcher
Organizational Continuity The Data of Long-lived Institutions Preliminary returns research into the longest-lived institutions in the world. By Alexander Rose