Long Now Foundation Cultivates ‘Long-Term Thinking’ Library Rooted in Past and Future
The Long Now Foundation fosters a living library for ‘long-term thinking,’ blending wisdom from the past with insights into the distant future to provide civilization-scale context. Their initiatives delve into diverse themes, including Stewart Brand’s ‘The Essential Art of Civilization’ and ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler.
Through concepts like the ‘Pace Layers framework,’ the project offers tools for understanding civilization’s mechanics and evolution. Guided by the principle that ‘our responsibility to the far future is to heed our deep past,’ it also highlights contemporary challenges such as the ease of digital storage versus the difficulty of its long-term preservation (the digital dark age). Figures like Lynn Rothschild and Blaise Agüera y Arcas offer long-term perspectives on topics spanning space, life, intelligence, and consciousness.
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