The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, works to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Located in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, the foundation is also home to a bar, café and museum that serves as gathering places for lectures and seminars on topics ranging from the environment to public policy and natural sciences, inspiring future thinking and long-range planning.
The construction of a monument scale, multi-millenial, all mechanical clock was the founding idea for the foundation. This project is under construction to be assembled on a mountain in Texas. A second location is planned on a desert mountain property in Nevada. The 10,000-year clock prototype is now housed at the Science Museum of London.
The Rosetta Project, another foundation initiative, focuses on the problem of digital obsolescence and creative storage by building an open public collection of the world’s languages. The Rosetta Collection, stored on a single disk, has grown to over 100,000 pages of documents and language records for more than 2,500 languages.
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