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What's with the 5-digit year format? Premature prep for y10k?
by favorited 2y ago
What's with the 5-digit year format? Premature prep for y10k?
- collinmcnulty 2y agoThat’s longnow’s whole deal. Getting people to think about the future far beyond a human lifespan.
- VelesDude 2y agoIt is such a simple thing but it works so well.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThe Long Now Foundation's mission is "Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now." The leading zero is a way to trigger people to think about the next 10,000 years.
- favorited 2y agoInteresting, thanks! I'd never heard of The Long Now Foundation before.
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- prox 2y agoInteresting. Gets you wondering what else you might not have heard of.
- robbiep 2y agoGo easy, they’re one of today’s lucky 10,000
- fragmede 2y agoreally depends how you read GP's comment. the tone is implied, or is it? read charitibly, y'know, sometimes I do wonder about the things I don't know. I have no idea beyond the surface about how my liver actually works, I don't know what it's like to give birth to a child, I don't know what it's like to go through chemotherapy or how that even actually works. The world is full of stuff I don't know and sometimes I stop a wonder about what I don't know that I don't know.
- Metus 2y ago> Interesting. Gets you wondering what else you might not have heard of. Consider how much of a rabbit hole YouTube can be and then imagine that the subsection of humanity that uses or is able to use YouTube is just a small part of it. A few topics and projects get a lot of attention but there are - I suppose - millions more with a dedicated fan base.
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