Log inSign up
Image
user avatar
Long Now Foundation
@longnow
Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
San Francisco, CA
longnow.org
Joined July 2008
5,419
Following
53.5K
Followers
RepliesMedia
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    Long Now Foundation
    @longnow
    Dec 2, 2025
    Challenges that feel impossible to tackle within a single human lifetime become conceivable when you have a longer timescale to work with. Today is a day to take the long view. Join our community of long-term thinking, 02026 is going to be a good one. na2.hubs.ly/H02frJ50
    Image
    00:00
  • user avatar
    Long Now Foundation
    @longnow
    Aug 6
    Geologically speaking, it’s quiet—too quiet—in California. Between 01800 and 01906, the San Andreas, San Jacinto, and Hayward faults ruptured eight times. Yet, over the last 120 years, there’s been an unsettling silence.  “We went from having basically one [earthquake] every 10
    Image
    How to Predict an Earthquake
    From nautil.us
  • user avatar
    Long Now Foundation
    @longnow
    Aug 5
    The chord change is happening today! The John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt's new chord means this 639-year project is about 4% complete. More from the AP here: apnews.com/article/john-c…
    Image
    Image
    Image
    user avatar
    Long Now Foundation
    @longnow
    Jun 17
    On August 5, you can hear a chord change in a piece of music that will outlast everyone alive today. The piece is John Cage’s ORGAN²/ASLSP (“As SLow aS Possible”), the longest-running non-computerized musical performance currently being performed, paced to unfold over 639 years.
  • user avatar
    Long Now Foundation
    @longnow
    Aug 4
    One man’s quest to photograph all living species: @joelsartore of National Geographic’s Photo Ark is celebrating 20 years of work and 18,000 species documented. He says, “I want people to care, to fall in love, and to take action.” The initiative aims to showcase the Earth's
    Image
    Image
    Image
    Image