Digital Dark Age Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Organizational Continuity Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER Digital Dark Age Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations? By Adrienne Bernhard Long Bets A Long Bet on Link Rot is Resolved, but Questions About the Durability of the Web Still Remain Long Bets URLs still work as intended, but a large portion of the rest of the web runs the risk of falling into a digital dark age. By Jacob Kuppermann The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher Digital Dark Age The Future and the Past of the Metaverse Many thinkers who first explored the idea of the metaverse were skeptical it would be liberatory. Today's tech world seems less interested in such ethical quandaries. By Jacob Kuppermann Digital Dark Age The Next 25(0[0]) Years of the Internet Archive "The Library of Alexandria is best known for burning down." The Internet Archive looks "wayforward" in hopes of avoiding the same fate. By Jacob Kuppermann Digital Dark Age The Permanent Legacy Foundation Wants to Preserve Your Digital Legacy for Future Generations Digital storage is easy; digital preservation is hard. By Ahmed Kabil Announcements Long Now Partners with GitHub on its Long-term Archive Program for Open Source Code By The Long Now Foundation Digital Dark Age How to Send Messages 10,000 Years into the Future "The projects these forward-thinkers dream up aim to convey clues about our existence, hellos to extraterrestrials, or warnings about nuclear waste—like postcards that will be legible to beings 1,000, 5,000, even 10,000 years ahead." By The Long Now Foundation Culture How We'll Forget John Lennon Our culture has two types of forgetting. By The Long Now Foundation Digital Dark Age How to Run a 500-Year Long Science Experiment By The Long Now Foundation
Digital Dark Age Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations? By Adrienne Bernhard
Long Bets A Long Bet on Link Rot is Resolved, but Questions About the Durability of the Web Still Remain Long Bets URLs still work as intended, but a large portion of the rest of the web runs the risk of falling into a digital dark age. By Jacob Kuppermann
The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher
Digital Dark Age The Future and the Past of the Metaverse Many thinkers who first explored the idea of the metaverse were skeptical it would be liberatory. Today's tech world seems less interested in such ethical quandaries. By Jacob Kuppermann
Digital Dark Age The Next 25(0[0]) Years of the Internet Archive "The Library of Alexandria is best known for burning down." The Internet Archive looks "wayforward" in hopes of avoiding the same fate. By Jacob Kuppermann
Digital Dark Age The Permanent Legacy Foundation Wants to Preserve Your Digital Legacy for Future Generations Digital storage is easy; digital preservation is hard. By Ahmed Kabil
Announcements Long Now Partners with GitHub on its Long-term Archive Program for Open Source Code By The Long Now Foundation
Digital Dark Age How to Send Messages 10,000 Years into the Future "The projects these forward-thinkers dream up aim to convey clues about our existence, hellos to extraterrestrials, or warnings about nuclear waste—like postcards that will be legible to beings 1,000, 5,000, even 10,000 years ahead." By The Long Now Foundation
Culture How We'll Forget John Lennon Our culture has two types of forgetting. By The Long Now Foundation