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Ahmed Kabil

Ahmed Kabil

·May 18, 2021

How Long is Now?

The art of Alicia Eggert makes time tangible — I. Time The most commonly-used noun in the English language is, according to the Oxford English Corpus, time. Its frequency is partly due to its multiplicity of meanings, and partly due to its use in common phrases. …

Art

16 min read

How Long is Now?
How Long is Now?

Brittany Nicole Cox

Brittany Nicole Cox

·Mar 23, 2021

In Real Time

How to unify nature’s experience of time and our perception of its passing — How do you measure a year? As straightforward as this seems, it is a truly personal question to each of us. What comes to mind? Life, weather or seismic events, loss or gains, political enterprises, a global pandemic? Or terms such as calendars, months, or dates? As a horologist, someone…

Time

8 min read

In Real Time
In Real Time

Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield

·Feb 15, 2021

Evan “Skytree” Snyder on Atomic Priests and Crystal Synthesizers

Taking deep time into the music studio, a robotics engineer and midtempo producer uses modern tools to commune with rocks and send notes to the distant future. — Evan “Skytree” Snyder straddles two worlds: by day, he is a robotics engineer. By night, he produces electronic music that drops listeners into lush atmospheres evocative of both the ancient world and distant future. We had a chance to speak with Snyder about his 02020 album Infraplanetary and his recent…

Electronic Music

9 min read

Evan “Skytree” Snyder on Atomic Priests and Crystal Synthesizers
Evan “Skytree” Snyder on Atomic Priests and Crystal Synthesizers

The Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation

·Feb 5, 2021

The Time Machine

Challenging perceptions of time and place to enhance climate change engagement through museums — By Henry McGhie*, Sarah Mander**, Asher Minns*** Abstract This article proposes that applying time-related concepts in museum exhibitions and events can contribute constructively to people’s engagement with climate change. Climate change now and future presents particular challenges as it is perceived to be psychologically distant. The link between this distance and…

Art

32 min read

The Time Machine
The Time Machine

Alexander Rose

Alexander Rose

·Nov 19, 2020

The Data of Long-lived Institutions

The story of which institutions have lasted the longest throughout history, and why — The following transcript of Alexander Rose’s Long Now talk has been edited for length and clarity. I want to lead you through some of the research that I’ve been doing on a meta-level around long-lived institutions, as well as some observations of the ways various systems have lasted for hundreds…

Longevity

14 min read

The Data of Long-lived Institutions
The Data of Long-lived Institutions

Benjamin Grant

Benjamin Grant

·Nov 12, 2020

A Timely Reflection on Our Changing Climate

The Earth will keep changing. The nature of that change is up to us. — The Ancient Greeks had two different words for time. The first, chronos, is time as we think of it now: marching forward, ceaselessly creating our past, present, and future. The second, kairos, is time in the opportune sense: the ideal moment to act, as captured by the phrase, “It’s time.” …

Environment

5 min read

A Timely Reflection on Our Changing Climate
A Timely Reflection on Our Changing Climate

The Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation

·Nov 10, 2020

Scenario Planning for the Long-term

Futurist Peter Schwartz distills the lessons learned from his work in scenario planning for organizations. — The following transcript of Peter Schwartz’s Long Now talk on scenario planning has been edited for length and clarity.

Business

8 min read

Scenario Planning for the Long-term
Scenario Planning for the Long-term

The Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation

·Oct 26, 2020

How Long-term Thinking Can Help Earth Now

An interview with Vincent Ialenti, author of Deep Time Reckoning — With half-lives ranging from 30 to 24,000, or even 16 million years, the radioactive elements in nuclear waste defy our typical operating time frames. The questions around nuclear waste storage — how to keep it safe from those who might wish to weaponize it, where to store it, by what…

Culture

10 min read

How Long-term Thinking Can Help Earth Now
How Long-term Thinking Can Help Earth Now

Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield

·Sep 22, 2020

Five New Discoveries Offer an Opportunity to Contemplate the Difference Between the Dead and Merely Dormant

Resurrection comes in many forms… — Although the sensitive can feel it in all seasons, Autumn seems to thin the veil between the living and the dead. Writing from the dying cusp of summer and the longer bardo marking humankind’s uneasy passage into a new world age (a transit paradoxically defined by floating signifiers and eroded…

Paleontology

5 min read

5 Discoveries Offer an Opportunity to Contemplate the Difference Between the Dead and Merely…
5 Discoveries Offer an Opportunity to Contemplate the Difference Between the Dead and Merely…

Roman Krznaric

Roman Krznaric

·Jul 20, 2020

Six Ways to Think Long-term

A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors — Human beings have an astonishing evolutionary gift: agile imaginations that can shift in an instant from thinking on a scale of seconds to a scale of years or even centuries. Our minds constantly dance across multiple time horizons. One moment we can be making a quickfire response to a text…

Future

13 min read

Six Ways to Think Long-term
Six Ways to Think Long-term
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The Long Now Foundation is a San Francisco based non-profit that works to promote long-term thinking. We are perhaps best known for building a Clock that will last for 10,000 years. Long Now members help make all we do possible. Learn more: https://longnow.org/membership/

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The Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation

Fostering long-term thinking through projects like the 10,000 year clock; Rosetta Disk; Revive & Restore; Seminars, videos, podcast . longnow.org

Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand is president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Revive & Restore

Ahmed Kabil

Ahmed Kabil

Editor, The Long Now Foundation. Stories in OneZero, GEN, LEVEL, Timeline. Say hi: med@well.com

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