The Long Now...
Alexander Rose, the executive director of the Long Now foundation, looks tired when he arrives for our meeting in Fort Mason, in the docks. The reason is simple: he has just finished a demo of some of the aspects of the ten thousand year clock the foundation is planning to build. Rose has been engaged in the foundation for some time now, and he tells the captivating story of how what was known as the clock project or clock/library project became a foundation. Now, with popular seminars and several other interesting projects (like longbets.org) the foundation is a fascinating new force in long-term thinking.
I have written an article about this meeting and long futures in general that will feature in the next issue of Neo.