Long Now Foundation
The
Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is an American
non-profit organization based in
San Francisco that seeks to start and promote a long-term
cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" thinking. The Long Now Foundation hopes to "creatively foster responsibility" in the framework of the next 10,000 years. In a manner somewhat similar to the
Holocene calendar, the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the
Year 10,000 problem (e.g., by writing the current year "0" rather than ""). The organization's logo is , a capital X with an overline, a representation of 10,000 in
Roman numerals.
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