See Digi-Man and Blizzard duke it out over digital plans of a nuclear powerhouse!! It is good to see an effort to make digital preservation heroic, which as we saw with the Apollo tapes below, it certainly can be. From the halls of Digital Preservation Europe Go to the feed source of this article Go [...]

The latest Seminars About Long-term Thinking are now available as audio downloads or podcasts and in hi-res video for Long Now members. *Michael Pollan on “Deep Agriculture” – audio now available Go to the feed source of this article Go to publisher’s website This article appeared on the website mentioned above and the author and/or [...]

Making farmers cool again Farming has become an occupation and cultural force of the past. Michael Pollan’s talk promoted the premise — and hope — that farming can become an occupation and force of the future. In the past century American farmers were given the assignment to produce lots of calories cheaply, and they did. [...]

Can a logographic script of a major world language survive its own government bureaucracy?  As reported in the NY Times: “Seeking to modernize its vast database on China’s 1.3 billion citizens, the government’s Public Security Bureau has been replacing the handwritten identity card that every Chinese must carry with a computer-readable one, complete with color [...]

 There will be at least two folks we know of live-twittering from the Michael Pollan seminar for those of you who would like to follow it: @cyrusbryan  is a long time friend of Long Now who now runs the Chicago Long Now Meetup.com group. @current_green is Leah Lamb from Current TV who will also be [...]

It is very difficult to keep digital data moving forward in time. I call that movage and its hard to do. Exhibit A: “Mankind’s first up-close photos of the lunar landscape have been rescued from four decades of dusty storage.” Steve Jurvetson writes: Behind the counter of an abandoned McDonalds lie 48,000 lbs of 70mm [...]

   Spark radio show has a segment that includes interviews with Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive, and Ed Burtynski about his idea for 10,000 photography and the Clock of the Long Now. Go to the feed source of this article Go to publisher’s website This article appeared on the website mentioned above and the [...]