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Long Now Ideas is a living library of long-term thinking — stories and concepts that draw on the ancient past and distant future to provide the civilization-scale context required to take the long view.
Space

Lynn Rothschild Takes the Long View

by Lynn Rothschild & Emily Hill

Infrastructure

Anatomy of an AI System

by Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler

Neural Media
Pace Layers framework
Concepts

Pace Layers framework

A tool for understanding how and why civlizations work

"the long now"

Our responsibility to the far future is to heed our deep past

"the big here"

Where "here" means the whole Earth

Digital Dark Age

Digital storage is easy — digital preservation is not

Time, Bits, and Nickel

by Julie Momméja

The Codes AI Can't Crack

by Taras Grescoe

Speed is a Choice

by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, & Michael Pollan

A Logic for the Future

by Stephen Heintz

Is God a Mushroom?

by John Last

Ahmed Best Takes the Long View

by Ahmed Best & The Long Now Foundation

Antikythera

by Benjamin Bratton

Reframing the Future

by Patrick Dowd

Launching Long Now’s Second Quarter Century

by Rebecca Lendl & Patrick Dowd

Announcing Pace Layers

by The Long Now Foundation

Enlarging the Question

by Jonathon Keats & William L. Fox

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