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Long Now Foundation

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Long Now Foundation

@longnow

Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

San Francisco, CA

Joined July 2008

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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Dec 2, 2025
Challenges that feel impossible to tackle within a single human lifetime become conceivable when you have a longer timescale to work with. Today is a day to take the long view. Join our community of long-term thinking, 02026 is going to be a good one. na2.hubs.ly/H02frJ50
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Long Now Foundation
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Jan 21, 2019
A way to remember deep time (via @imgur)
Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Nov 29, 2018
The Prelinger Archives recently produced the highest quality version yet of the Miles Brothers’ iconic pre-earthquake footage of #SanFrancisco, “A Trip Down Market Street” (01906), showing detail that no audience has seen in over one hundred years.
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Dec 25, 2022
54 years ago, on Christmas Eve, 01968, the astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission became the first humans to take a picture of the Whole Earth from space. It changed everything. longnow.org/ideas/overview…
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Oct 13, 2023
In Fall 01968, @stewartbrand put the Whole Earth Catalog out into the world. 55 years later, our friends at @GrayAreaorg and the @internetarchive are launching the Whole Earth Index: a nearly complete free online archive of Whole Earth publications. wholeearth.info
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Oct 24, 2019
A new interactive map lets you input any location on Earth and see how it's changed over the past 750 million years.
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years
From smithsonianmag.com
Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Jan 10, 2020
"That's the purpose of stories. It's what they're for. They make life worth living, and sometimes, they help keep us alive." - @neilhimself
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Oct 30, 2019
Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) on how to tell a story that lasts 10,000 years.
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Nov 14, 2020
Same as it ever was.
Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Jul 7, 2019
"Welcome and accept failure." - @kevin2kelly and @SimoneGiertz share their advice for people who are making things.
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Jun 8, 2024
We are saddened to mark the passing of William Anders, the NASA astronaut who in 01968 took Earthrise, the first human-captured photograph of Earth from the Moon. By capturing an image of the Earth from space, Anders changed everything.
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Jul 20, 2023
The Dead Sea scrolls are still readable 2 millennia after their creation — yet the expected shelf life of a DVD is just 100 years. Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?
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Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Jun 2, 2018
Take a deep breath before you watch the @ursulakleguin documentary trailer. It takes your breath away. Featuring @neilhimself, @MargaretAtwood, Michael Chabon, and others. More details from @openculture, below. vimeo.com/268831999
Open Culture
@openculture
Jun 2, 2018
Watch the New Trailer for "Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin," the First Feature Film on the Pioneering Sci-Fi Author openculture.com/?p=1052489
Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Nov 25, 2024
We are thrilled to announce Pace Layers, a new annual journal of long-term thinking. Our first issue is a 282-page compendium of ideas, art, and insights on what we call the Pace Layers of our planet: fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, and nature.
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