Long Now Foundation
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| Founded | January 4, 1996 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
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| Registration no. | C1956835 |
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| Coordinates | 37°48′23″N 122°25′56″W / 37.8064591°N 122.4321258°WCoordinates: 37°48′23″N 122°25′56″W / 37.8064591°N 122.4321258°W |
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Key people
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President Stewart Brand, Brian Eno |
| Website | longnow |
The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is a public, non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" thinking. The Long Now Foundation hopes to "creatively foster responsibility" in the framework of the next 10,000 years, and so uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem (e.g., by writing "02017" rather than "2017"). The organisation's logo, a capital X with an overline, is a representation of 10,000 in Roman numerals.
The Foundation has several ongoing projects, including a 10,000-year clock known as the Clock of the Long Now, the Rosetta Project, the Long Bet Project, the open source Timeline Tool (also known as Longviewer), the Long Server and a monthly seminar series.
The purpose of the Clock of the Long Now is to construct a timepiece that will operate with minimum human intervention for ten millennia. It is to be constructed of durable materials, to be easy to repair, and to be made of largely valueless materials in case knowledge of the clock is lost or it is deemed to be of no value to an individual or possible future civilization; in this way it is hoped that the Clock will not be looted or destroyed. Its power source (or sources) should be renewable but similarly unlootable. A prototype of a potential final clock candidate was activated on December 31, 1999, and is currently on display at the Science Museum at London. The Foundation hopes to construct the finished Clock at Mount Washington south of Great Basin National Park near Ely, Nevada.
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