The Long Now Foundation

A nonprofit cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation promotes long-term thinking and responsibility across the next and last 10,000 years, a timespan it calls the long now. It develops cultural projects including a 10,000-year clock, an immense mechanical monument designed to keep accurate time for ten millennia. Its programs include the Long Now Talks lecture series, Long Now Ideas digital publication, and Pace Layers print journal. The Interval at Long Now in San Francisco serves as a bar, café, exhibit space, and event venue for these ideas and activities. Founded in 01996 by Stewart Brand, Danny Hillis, and Brian Eno, the foundation also operates projects and programs related to deep time, the distant future, and civilization-scale thinking.