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The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More...

Upcoming Seminars About Long-term Thinking

Mar 31     Jane Metcalfe   “The Neobiological Revolution”

Apr 13 Laurance Doyle “Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”   May 13 Rick Doblin “Transformational Psychedelics”   Jun 22 Craig Childs “Travels in Ice Age America”   Jul 14 Peter Calthorpe “Urban Planet: Ecology, Community, and Growth Through the Next Century”   Nov 23 Roman Krznaric “Becoming a Better Ancestor”      View All Seminars

The 10,000 Year Clock

A monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical
clock as an icon to long term thinking.

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Building an Archive of ALL Documented
Human Languages. Browse the interactive disk online and contribute to the archive.

A public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake.

Long Now's unique bar, cafe, museum, library, event space. Open in San Francisco 10 a.m. to midnight, 7-days a week.