Long Now Foundation Promotes Long-Term Thinking, Drawing Context from Past and Future Civilizations

The Long Now Foundation presents “Long Now Ideas,” a repository designed to foster civilization-scale long-term thinking, moving beyond short-term perspectives. This platform aims to provide the context necessary for adopting a long view by drawing on ancient history and visions of the distant future.

Specific contributions include “Space: Lynn Rothschild Takes the Long View” by Lynn Rothschild & Emily Hill, exploring long-term perspectives in space. “Infrastructure: Anatomy of an AI System” by Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler dissects the structure of AI systems, while Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s “Neural Media: Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective” delves into functional viewpoints on life, intelligence, and consciousness.

Further concepts like the “Pace Layers framework” for understanding civilization mechanics, the ethical imperative “Our responsibility to the far future is to heed our deep past,” and the challenges of digital preservation highlighted in “Digital Dark Age” are presented. Articles such as Patrick Dowd’s “Neural Media: The Inheritance of Dreams” and Kim Carson’s “Neural Media: Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI” ponder human purpose and the inheritance of dreams in the age of AI.

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