THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
About This Cause
The mission of The Long Now Foundation is to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Since 01996* we've been exploring ways to extend temporal horizons beyond the next week and the next election cycle—even beyond the next millennium. An expanded sense of time and place—into the Big Here and the Long Now—is necessary to address problems which cannot be solved within the framework of a single human lifespan. Climate change, nuclear waste storage, long-term science, and interstellar exploration all require us to think beyond our default horizons. Since we need this extended perspective—perhaps now more than ever—it's worth asking: how do we make long-term thinking more automatic and common, instead of difficult and rare? We have a number of projects and programs that seek to address this question. Since our founding in 01996, we have been designing and building The Clock of the Long Now—a monument-scale mechanical clock designed to keep good time for the next 10,000 years. It's currently under construction in the Sierra Diablo mountain range in West Texas. We're also home to The Rosetta Project (focused on long-term language archiving) and Revive & Restore (focused on the genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species through genomic technology). Additionally, we operate a public space in San Francisco called The Interval (which is part bar, part café, part museum, and part library) and we produce regular public programming through our Interval talks and our lectures series, Seminars About Long-term Thinking. Together, these projects and programs help advance our mission to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. *We formally adopted a 5-digit year format to solve for the impending Y10K bug. We ran into the issue when modeling some aspects of the Clock.