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:This was established in 01996* to encourage long term thinking in a world that lives in a frantic present without much regard for the future. Two major projects are ''[http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock Clock of the Long Now]'' which is clock designed to run for 10,000 years and the ''[http://www.rosettaproject.org Rosetta Project]'' which trying to create a near permanent archive of 1,000 languages. | :This was established in 01996* to encourage long term thinking in a world that lives in a frantic present without much regard for the future. Two major projects are ''[http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock Clock of the Long Now]'' which is clock designed to run for 10,000 years and the ''[http://www.rosettaproject.org Rosetta Project]'' which trying to create a near permanent archive of 1,000 languages. | ||
Revision as of 03:56, 13 February 2007
- The Long Now Foundation
- This was established in 01996* to encourage long term thinking in a world that lives in a frantic present without much regard for the future. Two major projects are Clock of the Long Now which is clock designed to run for 10,000 years and the Rosetta Project which trying to create a near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault
- The mission of this seed vault is store as many seeds known to us as is possible. This is to prevent important agricultural and wild plants from becoming rare or extinct in the event of a global disaster. It is being built on the remote arctic island of Svarlbard. BBC article 7th Feb 02007*
- Doomsday clock
- This is symbolic clock maintained since 01947* by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. The clock is altered periodically to represent ththe clock was wound back significantly at the end of the cold war in the 1990s, but has since moved nearer to midnight due to the continuing instability in the Middle East.
- Alliance to Rescue Civilization
- This is an organisation that aims to create an off-Earth backup of human civilisation that is able to repopulate the Earth in event of a global disaster or reintroduce knowledge of science and the arts.
*Five digits are used here to denote years, in honour of the Long Now Foundation who use this format to help promote long-term thinking
