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A way to remember deep time (via @imgur )

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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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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.

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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.

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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

The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian period and the present

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"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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Neil Gaiman ( @neilhimself ) on how to tell a story that lasts 10,000 years.

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"Welcome and accept failure." - @kevin2kelly and @simonegiertz share their advice for people who are making things.

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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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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.

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin Official Trailer

Official trailer for Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, a feature documentary by Arwen Curry about the life and legacy of the late author. worldsofukl.com

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Watch the New Trailer for "Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin," the First Feature Film on the Pioneering Sci-Fi Author

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Happy Birthday to our co-founder #BrianEno who turns 70 on May 15. A few of our favorite Eno links below...

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The evolution of the Latin alphabet.

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"We're not as smart as we think we are!" In his research into "How to Invent Everything," @RyanQNorth uncovered a number of inventions that humanity could have invented centuries or even millennia before we actually did, from compasses to hot air balloons to buttons.

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

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We're halfway through the year. Take a moment, small or large, to consider the Long Now -- time not just on the scale of the year or even the decade, but on the scale of millennia and tens of thousands of years.

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The evolution of the Latin Alphabet. (Chart by Matt Baker | @usefulcharts )

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This Present Moment Used To Be The Unimaginable Future

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Kevin Kelly ( @kevin2kelly ) argues that the inevitable rise of superhuman artificial intelligence—long predicted by leaders in science and technology—is a myth based on misperceptions without evidence.

The Myth of a Superhuman AI | Backchannel

Hyper-intelligent algorithms are not going to take over the world for these five reasons.

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A way to remember deep time.

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Neal Stephenson coined the term “Metaverse” in 1992 to describe a dystopian future world based around virtual reality. It has since taken on a life of its own. Join us 11/17 with Neal as we discuss his new book Termination Shock and his long-term vision.

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"Talked to SRI Host to Host" This page from a @UCLA logbook captures the moment—50 years ago today—when the internet was born. #InternetDay #internet50

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Economist @MazzucatoM argues that when we confuse price with value, we end up with a form of capitalism that rewards value extraction activities over value creation, increasing inequality in the process. Watch her Long Now talk (now on YouTube):

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90% of the companies that are over 200 years old have 300 employees or less.

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We're halfway through the year. Take a moment, small or large, to consider the Long Now — time not just on the scale of the year or even the decade, but on the scale of millennia and tens of thousands of years.

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"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 Watch his full talk here:

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“The developers I talk to seem very aware that all of software—and, by extension, our entire digital society—is built on toothpicks and popsicle sticks.” - @nayafia

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The Oldest Company in Almost Every Country (That is Still in Business) View map in high resolution here:

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Long Now Co-Founder @DannyHillis on the need for widespread serological testing to understand immunity to COVID-19:

An Epidemic of False Confidence Related to COVID-19

In times of uncertainty, we should be more honest in admitting our ignorance.

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How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare?

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Amazing wildlife photography by @KathCooper01 reveals the brushwork of birds and their flocks through sky, hidden by the quickness of the human eye.

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"A focus on maintenance provides opportunities to ask questions about what we really want out of technologies. What do we really care about? What kind of society do we want to live in? Will this help get us there?"

Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more | Aeon Essays

Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more

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A look into the deep history (and possible deep future) of technology and humanity from @ourworldindata .

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At an estimated 40,000 years old, the Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps are the oldest known technical system built by humans on the planet. Watch @feraldata 's full talk here:

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53 years ago today, 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.

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Please join us in wishing a very happy 83rd Birthday to Long Now co-founder and President @stewartbrand ! What are your favorite Stewart Brand moments?

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First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design:

First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient...

The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology, and begin to see biodiversity as a building block of

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The oldest known technical system built by humans is found on the banks of the Barwon river in Australia. The Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps were built 40,000 years ago as a giant complex of stone traps, serving as a center of food production & community. @FeralData explains:

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The History of Philosophy is an interactive tool enabling users to dig into a visual timeline of 2,500 years of philosophical thought and discover lines of agreement and divergence. Created by @denizcemonduygu . Browse here:

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How did we get to now and where might we go from here? Long Now is accepting pitches of essays, reported features, interviews, book reviews, fiction & poetry for Ideas, our living archive of long-term thinking.

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"If I tried to compete, I would always lose. But when you invent, it's not competition yet -- and so inventing became my mode." - @StewartBrand

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Leading up to this year’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite SF-based clips from the Prelinger Archives. First up is Trip Down Market Street (01906), captured four days before the Great San Francisco Earthquake.

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Tortoise of the Long Now.

Matt Steinglass, quitting this fascist platform

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My son just suggested a foundation to bring young tortoises to important events so that 150 years later people can say “this tortoise witnessed Biden’s inauguration” etc

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The average lifespan of a civilization is 336 years. via @LukaKemp & @BBC

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55 years ago today, 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.

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We've got a long way to go...

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Economist @MazzucatoM argues that when we confuse price with value, we end up with a form of capitalism that rewards value extraction activities over value creation, increasing inequality in the process.

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For the 01900 World's Fair in Paris, W.E.B. Du Bois presented groundbreaking data visualizations about Black life in America.

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We can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world or our technology, but as a part of them, integrated, codependent, and entangled.

The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement

We can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world or our technology, but as a part of them, integrated, codependent, and…

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How can science fiction help us imagine new futures and make sense of our current civilizational struggles? Next week: join us for a Long Now Talk with Hugo-award winning science fiction authors Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz ( @Annaleen ) on Resisting Dystopia.

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We are saddened to hear of the passing of the groundbreaking theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson:

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This year, we used our Long Now Talks to explore the very nature of time itself. In May, we welcomed theoretical physicist @SeanMCarroll , who explained our understanding of the directionality of time with an assist from a cracked egg on a sidewalk. #LongNow02021

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The Smithsonian has acquired a light sculpture by @AliciaEggert that is based on a quote from Long Now co-founder @stewartbrand 's The Clock of The Long Now:

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"You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. We have only what we know we must lose."— @ursulaleguin

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Happy birthday, @kevin2kelly .

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We are saddened to mark the passing of science fiction author & scientist Vernor Vinge. Known for his popularization of the idea of a technological singularity, in his 02007 Long Now Talk he instead asked: What if the Singularity Does NOT Happen?

What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? | Vernor Vinge

Technology acceleration is like what happens approaching the singularity in the center of a black hole--- everything is transformed utterly and unpredictably...

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Happy 82nd birthday to Long Now co-founder and President, @stewartbrand !

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"At the North Pole, 24 time zones collide at a single point, rendering them meaningless. It’s simultaneously all of Earth’s time zones and none of them."

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"By combining clues from artwork, ancient manuscripts, and oral histories, she was able to identify hundreds of Renaissance-era fruits. She now grows many of them in a 20-acre farmstead as an outdoor museum of Italy’s past."

The Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit

Renaissance paintings can hide botanical secrets.

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As of 1/1/02018 @WarrenBuffett has won his 10-year #LongBet that "the S&P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds." Congrats to @GirlsIncOmaha his chosen beneficiary! Read the details of his bet:

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Warren Buffet won his Long Bet against hedge funds, and $2.2 million is going to Girls Inc. as a result.

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A newly digitized 1000-year-old illuminated manuscript from the @britishlibrary : the only surviving illustrated guide to medicinal plants in Old English. With references to 'dragon's blood' it's truly fantastic. Via @openculture

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"Work on something that nobody has a name for." Many gems of wisdom in @jamescurrier 's interview with Long Now's @kevin2kelly on bringing long-term thinking to startups.

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Ecosystems change on the time scale of decades. Our attention spans rarely extend that far out. Long-term datasets and nature apps that allow everyone to make research-grade observations are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now:

Peering Into The Invisible Present

How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now

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Want to build something that lasts? We’re looking for an Executive Director to lead The Long Now Foundation into its next quarter-century.

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In two weeks: architect & designer Neri Oxman joins us for NATURE x HUMANITY, a livestreamed talk exploring how our built environments could work in harmony with our natural world. This talk is presented in conjunction with her new exhibition at @SFMOMA .

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Economist @MazzucatoM argues that when we confuse price with value, we end up with a form of capitalism that rewards value extraction activities over value creation, increasing inequality in the process.

We Need To Question The Economic Stories We've Been Told — Mariana...

Economist Mariana Mazzucato argues that when we confuse price with value, we end up with a form of capitalism that rewards value extraction activities over v...

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23 years ago today, in the waning hours of New Year's Eve 01999: Prototype 1 of The Clock of The Long Now, designed by Danny Hillis, began ticking — just in time to ring in the new millennium. Here's to many more.

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After 26 years of dedicated service to The Long Now Foundation, Alexander Rose will be stepping down from his role as Executive Director. Our tribute to Zander as he steps down from his role, as told by the people who know him best:

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Happy 84th Birthday to Long Now Co-Founder and President Stewart Brand. Here's to many more.

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@elonmusk @Liv_Boeree Smaller than a microscopic sliver at the tip of a fingernail.

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With tremendous gratitude, the Board of Directors of the Long Now Foundation announces that Alexander Rose will be stepping down from his role as Executive Director after 26 years of service to focus on his research into the world’s longest-lived organizations.

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Today, on an organ in a church in Halberstadt, Germany, a new note will be added to a performance of John Cage's As Slow as Possible that began in 02001 and will not finish until 02640 – a span of 639 years.

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Today, @Int_Machines ’s NOVA-C lander may become the first American-built mission to land on the moon in more than 50 years. Thanks to our friends and partners at @archmission , data from the Rosetta Project, our archive of the world’s languages, is landing on the moon with it.

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We are pleased to announce that @patrickc , CEO of @Stripe , has joined the Long Now board:

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Two thousand years ago, engineers and inventors flocked to Alexandria, Egypt—the "Silicon Valley of antiquity"—where they designed and constructed self-moving devices, self-driving theaters, and complex automatons. | @amayor

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The Clock of the Long Now asks us, in whispers of buried bells: “Are we being good ancestors?” We’re excited to share new footage of The Clock of the Long Now featuring our founders — Danny Hillis, @StewartBrand , and Brian Eno — as the bells of The Clock peal for the first time.

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Archaeologists have discovered tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face in the Amazon. The 12,500 year-old prehistoric rock art depicts humans and now-extinct animals such as the mastodon.

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The evolution of the Latin #alphabet . Design by Matt Baker. @usefulcharts

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Stories are alive. And they are competing fiercely to survive. Watch or listen (again) to Neil Gaiman's wonderful 02015 #longnow talk "How Stories Last" @neilhimself

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Sometimes this quote is quite literally true.

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“The way we talk about things is our map of the world. Just as physical maps can be wrong, the way we talk about the world can lead us astray.” - @timoreilly

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The speaking series at Long Now are moving to a virtual format during this time. In order to share these ideas with a wider audience, we are opening up our live stream to everyone.

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“This present moment used to be the unimaginable future”— @stewartbrand . Installation is under way. Long Now's 10,000 Year Clock: designed and built over decades to last for millennia. Find out more at