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The 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
by bryanlarsen 3y ago
The 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 3y agoInteresting, thanks! I'd never heard of The Long Now Foundation before.
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- prox 3y agoInteresting. Gets you wondering what else you might not have heard of.
- robbiep 3y agoGo easy, they’re one of today’s lucky 10,000
- fragmede 3y 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 3y 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.