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Cryptomeria Man Base
Alexander Rose’s officially selected design for the 2026 Burning Man Man Base — Cryptomeria, a participatory monument…
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I want to burn your books!
The Clarisse McClellan Manual for Civilization Library at Burning Man 2025 — a Fahrenheit 451-inspired reading room of…
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100 Year Plan
WordPress.com’s 100-Year Plan offers a century of hosting security — LOCKSS-principle storage, numbered trust accounts, and…
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The Emergence
A futurist’s view of 2025: Alexander Rose on the contradictions and possibilities of our moment — AI, governance, climate, and…
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Where the Cloud Touches the Ground
A firsthand tour of one of Automattic’s data centers, exploring what truly long-term digital preservation of the open web…
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2025: Who predicted this?
Alexander Rose looks back at 25 years of predictions — Y2K, 9/11, the pandemic, Bitcoin — examining what futurists got…
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The Data of Long-lived Institutions
Research on which human institutions have lasted longest throughout history — examining the patterns and principles behind…
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Long-term Building in Japan
Japan’s Ise Shrine and Hōryū-ji Temple offer lessons in how to make a building, or an institution, last through millennia.
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Long-Lived Institutions
Lessons from six long-term thinkers on how to create organizations that last — drawn from research at The Long Now…
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How to build something that lasts 10,000 years
Few human-made structures last for millennia, but as Alexander Rose explains, it is possible to design for extreme…
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The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
Hoover Dam contains a hidden 26,000-year star map, commissioned in 01931 and hidden in plain sight…
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A Journey to Siberia in Search of Woolly Mammoths
A trip report from Pleistocene Park in Siberia, where George Church and others are working to revive the woolly mammoth…
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The Manual for Civilization
The curatorial principle behind Long Now’s 3,500-book collection at The Interval: what books would you need to sustain or rebuild…
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SALT Summaries
Condensed ideas about long-term thinking, summarized by Stewart Brand with Kevin Kelly, Alexander Rose and forward by Brian Eno…
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Inside Svalbard, the Doomsday Vault Saving the Past and Future of Agriculture
A first-hand account of visiting the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at 78° North — including rare access inside the active…
