The Long News: stories that might still matter fifty, or a hundred, or ten thousand years from now. Burr Heneman suggests that the increasing empowerment of women around the world will have impact for generations to come. Just a few weeks ago the U.S. marked the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women [...]

Long Now has been invited by experimental artist Misha Glouberman to be a partner in a commissioned performance he’s created for Ann Hamilton’s Sound Tower – an 80-foot tall site-specific sculpture located on the Oliver Ranch in Geyserville.   This participatory event takes place on Saturday September 25, 02010 in Geyserville California. Terrible Noises For Beautiful People is a [...]

The Long Now Foundation presents Longplayer San Francisco 1,000 years in three simultaneous acts TICKETS Saturday October 16, 02010 Longplayer 7:00am to 11:40pm at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Long Conversation 3:00pm to 9:00pm at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Long Now Members can reserve 1 seat, join today! &#8226 General Tickets $28 About [...]

Here’s a great comic strip by Tom Gauld: See also: Das Rad. (Sent in by Mark Watkins, via BoingBoing) , Original article Go to the feed source of this article Go to LongNow.org This article appeared on TheLongNow.org and the author and/or the publisher are to be credited explicitly for the content. Alphaverse.com is not [...]

The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking Richard Rhodes on “Twilight of the Bombs” TICKETS Tuesday September 21, 02010 at 7:30pm Herbst Theater on Van Ness Long Now Members can reserve 2 seats, join today! &#8226 General Tickets $10 About this Seminar: Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, [...]

Now and When: Installation detail for Proof by Margaret Tedesco & Matt Borruso The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is hosting a series of conversations about time in conjunction with their current show Now and When. On Wednesday August 18th, Alexander Rose will join Jeannene Przyblyski of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets in [...]

The usual “digital dark age” stories we see are the ones where people lose data because a platform obsolesces.  Business Week is running an interesting story about a computer platform that has refused to obsolesce, and it is the people who are leaving it behind – The Mainframe.  It turns out that there are still [...]