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Formation | January 4, 1996 |
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Type | 501(c)(3) |
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Registration no. | C1956835 |
Headquarters | Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California, US |
Coordinates | 37°48′23″N 122°25′56″W / 37.8064591°N 122.4321258°W |
Key people | President Stewart Brand, Brian Eno |
Website | longnow |
The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996,[1] 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[2] (e.g., by writing the current year "02024" rather than "2024"). The organization's logo is X, a capital X with an overline, a representation of 10,000 in Roman numerals.
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