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Fostering long-term thinking and responsibility through diverse projects aiming to inspire, educate, and challenge our concepts of the future.

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    When we think about the far future it changes who we are today. Help change the world for the better.

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  2. .'s new novel, "The Future of Another Timeline," is about time travelers in an edit war over history. But it's also about using stories to change the course of civilization.

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  3. Today’s date is a palindrome in every single country in the world. In China, it is 2020.02.02. In the UK, it is 02.02.2020. In the US, it is 02.02.2020. At Long Now, it is 02.02.02020. Why we use five digit dates:

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  4. and 2020... Jump ahead 50 more years and envision what an ad will say then? A short version of a -style exercise. (Ht )

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  5. Happy 2020-02-02, all you beautiful beings — here’s to the thousand years until our next anagram! (And yes of course it’s 02020 in the nomenclature, & nothing fancy at all in most/all other calendars. But what’s time anyway, other than a weird & slightly useful concept?)

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  6. 20 hours ago

    What does practical long-term thinking look like? Bina Venkataraman’s new book, The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age ⁦⁩ LONG NOW: SEMINARS ABOUT LONG-TERM THINKING

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  7. Feb 1

    Weekend long-watch (90min): Settle in for Saul Griffith's 2015 conversation with at : Infrastructure and Climate Change

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  8. While traditionally social factors have been considered to have primary influence on political behaviors and preferences, more recent research shows that there's also a strong heritable component to ideological attitudes.

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  9. “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?” -

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  10. "For us, anything that we're saying, we do it in mind that our seven [future] generations are sitting with us already." -Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook on the Lakota's 7th Generation principle.

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  11. Exciting, pragmatic paper on the potential climate benefits and practicality of restoring the Arctic’s mammoth steppe with rewilded mega-grazers, at scale. Pleistocene Park writ large and real.

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  12. Jan 29

    First release of genetically engineered moth could herald new era of crop protection

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  13. The video that Tim is referring to here is 1 hour 40 minutes of discourse on the legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog, organized by Peter Leyden . The link:

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  14. New pod: Bina Venkataraman () on how to practice long-term thinking in a distracted world.

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  16. Jan 28

    “It’s such a powerful, personal experience… and as much as we love the pictures that we bring back, it’s not the same as seeing it yourself.” Bill McArthur of describes a shift in his worldview during his time in space:

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  17. Es Devlin's art installation Memory Palace explores the evolution of human thought and history with a chronological landscape that plots “pivotal shifts in human perspective” from the beginning of our history to the present day. |

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  18. Jan 28

    Remember when I used Twitter to ask you if I could use this quote to make a neon sign, ?

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  19. Jan 29

    Snap a photo with an intergenerational camera with a 100-year exposure...and other amazing deep-time works from philosopher-artist Jonathon Keats

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  20. “Language is both an embodiment of human culture, as well as the primary means of its maintenance and transmission. When languages are lost, the transmission of traditional culture is often abruptly severed.”

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  21. ., who leads the C4 Rice Project, gave a Long Now talk about the project in 02016. Watch it here:

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