4nomore.net » time http://4nomore.net Musings of a memeplex - a mixture of thoughts, books, ... Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:40:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Long Now Foundation http://4nomore.net/2005/11/longnow/ http://4nomore.net/2005/11/longnow/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:40:00 +0000 admin http://4nomore.net/wordpress/2005/11/longnow/ The Long Now Foundation was founded by some rather famous people thinking that our time increasingly is concerned with short-term things anymore: politicians on election or polling cycles, industry in quarterly numbers, human beings in maximum their own lifetime.
One project is the clock of the Long Now – a project to build a huge (mechanical) clock ticking for 10000 years. Plans are made, already land in Nevada has been bought for the project – I really would like to see this realized and visit this site. I think it is a very worthwhile project, maybe touching and changing visitors like the pictures of earth from space once did.

They also have a series of seminars/talks, which is available on the web as http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars.

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