Manual For Civilization - Long Now The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit encouraging imagination at the timescale of civilization— the next and last 10,000 years— what we call the long now.

How can we expand our temporal bandwidth (the range of time we experience as relevant to our present). The idea comes from Thomas Pynchon. One of the best toolsets for this comes from the Long Now Foundation

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Alan Jacobs quoting Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow." #History #temporalbandwidth #personaldensity #ThomasPynchon