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The Interval Bottle Keep

Join The Interval Bottle Keep and on your next visit, your own bottle of spirits awaits, nestled among 400 others that decorate our ceiling and belong to fellow Long Now members and friends. While researching long-lived institutions in Japan, we learned about traditional bottle keeps. Patrons purchase an entire bottle of spirit kept at the bar for their personal enjoyment on future visits. To make ours special, we asked St. George Spirits to develop two exclusive spirits just for us: a single malt whiskey and a gin made with juniper berries foraged on our Nevada Bristlecone Preserve.

Donate $2,500

Rosetta Archive Pendant

Become part of Long Now’s effort to preserve human languages by wearing a working copy of the Rosetta Archive around your neck on this beautiful pendant. This second edition of 100 works towards Rosetta’s long-desired goal of broad dissemination (“lots of copies keeps stuff safe”) while remaining an extremely unique way to show your passion for long-term thinking.

Donate $1,000

The Clock of the Long Now & Pace Layers set

Taken together, The Clock of The Long Now and the Pace Layers 02024 Annual Journal put both our founding framework for long-term responsibility and the very latest civilization-scale thinking from the Long Now community into your hands. This set is a comprehensive introduction to the work of The Long Now Foundation and long-term thinking. We recommend it for sharing with friends who want to learn how imagination at the timescale of civilization can help us become good ancestors. Ships in January.

$40

Pace Layers 02024 Annual Journal

Pace Layers is Long Now's Annual Journal of long-term thinking. Our inaugural issue is a 282-page compendium of ideas, art, and insights from the remarkable community that has formed around Long Now over the past quarter-century, as well as glimpse into our plans for our second quarter-century. Whether you are new to our community or a long-time supporter, we hope you will see this journal as an invitation and guide to making long-term thinking a deeper part of your life and work.

$25

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The Clock of the Long Now

Stewart Brand's 01999 book, The Clock of The Long Now, is a kind of founding manifesto for The Long Now Foundation. Containing some of the earliest outlines of Long Now concepts like Pace Layers, the Digital Dark Age, and the 10,000-year library, it's a comprehensive introduction to long-term thinking and responsibility that remains immediately relevant today.

$20

Bristlecone Pine Challenge Coin

Challenge coins have a rich tradition of camaraderie and identity, carried and exchanged by astronauts and soldiers. When Long Now built The Interval, we made our own challenge coins, which quickly became the most popular reward for our "brickstarter" fundraising campaign. Each coin reads “Carpe Millennium” on one side and features a bristlecone pine on the other. The challenge is initiated when one holder slams their coin down on the bar — anyone who can't produce their own coin is on the hook for a round of drinks.

Donate $100

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