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Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is an American non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to start and promote a 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. In a manner somewhat similar to the Holocene calendar, the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem. The organization's logo is X, a capital X with an overline, a representation of 10,000 in Roman numerals.

Projects
The foundation has several ongoing projects, including a 10,000-year clock known as the Clock of the Long Now, a cafe/bar called The Interval, and a popular seminar series, among others. Clock of the Long Now The purpose of the Clock of the Long Now is to construct a timepiece that will operate with minimum human intervention for ten millennia. The purpose of The Interval is to have a public space where people can come together to discuss ideas and topics related to long-term thinking, as well as provide a venue for a variety of Long Now events. The Interval includes lounge furniture, artifacts from the foundation's projects, a library of the 1000 most important books for restarting civilization in the event of collapse, audio/video equipment, robots, art pieces, and a bar serving tea and coffee during the day, and cocktails during the night. Axios described it as an 'eclectic bar, cafe, art museum' that is one of San Francisco's best bars. Seminars about long-term thinking , Danny Hillis, and Stewart Brand speaking at "The Long Now, now" – an event in January 2014 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San FranciscoIn November 2003, The Long Now Foundation began a series of monthly seminars about long-term thinking (SALT) with a lecture by Brian Eno. The seminars are held in the San Francisco Bay Area and have focused on long-term policy and thinking, scenario planning, singularity and the projects of the foundation. The seminars are available for download in various formats from The Long Now Foundation. while working towards preserving 1,500. Manual for Civilization The Manual for Civilization is a living, crowd-curated library of over 3,500 books with the purpose of creating a record of humanity and technology for the current generation's descendants. The library is curated by the Long Now community and is on display at The Interval, Long Now’s cafe-bar-salon in San Francisco. Other projects include the Long Library, a library designed to cover the past 10,000 years and last for that long into the future; and Long Bets, a public prediction registry and accountability platform. ==In popular culture==
In popular culture
Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel Anathem was partly inspired by the author's involvement with the Clock of the Long Now project. As a result of Brian Eno's work on the clock project, an album entitled January 07003 / Bell Studies for The Clock of The Long Now was released in 2003. English songwriter Owen Tromans released a single entitled "Long Now", inspired by the foundation, in 2013. Ian McEwan acknowledges the foundation for helping with much deep thinking about what we owe the future in his 2025 novel 'What We Can Know'. The novel centers around a lost poem (perhaps a masterpiece) and an academic's search for it roughly 150 years hence, when climate change has drowned much of the landscape referenced by the poem. ==Board members==
Board members
The Board of Directors of The Long Now Foundation : ==See also==
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