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Long Now Foundation

San Francisco, California

Cause Description:
CIVILIZATION is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed---some mechanism or myth which encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where "long-term" is measured at least in centuries. The Long Now Foundation proposes both a mechanism and a myth---a 10,000-year Clock, with an information service to match.

Type: School/Parent-Teacher
Listed on iGive since: November 1998
iGive members supporting: 15

Website: http://www.longnow.org/

Raised through iGive: $61.23 across 3 checks, August 1999 to December 1999.

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