1. Press coverage
  2. Published articles by board members
  3. Press kit
  4. Web linking resources

 

Press Coverage:
Article Name Author Publication Date
"You've Got To Find What You Love" Steve Jobs Stanford University Commencement June 2005
Shacking Up:
'Shantytowns' are a practical response to a world ruled by speculative real estate
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Carol lloyd San Francisco Chronicle June17th 02005
N/A Jessica Noon Rainy Day Magazine April 02005
Essay Timothy Querengesser Adbusters Sept/Oct 02004
The Long Now Foundation Project by Juha Huuskonen

 

Publicopinion.fi

 

December 02004

Researchers Look To Save Disappearing Languages Online

(Featured in the print edition)

Sheila Riley Investor's Business Daily November 02004
Hey, Cliff Clavin, This Time Sam Malone's the Smart One Jonathan Fuerbringer The New York Times November 2004
The Long Now: Why Slower isThe Unnoticed New Frontier Roger Smith IT Manager's Journal October 2004
This Is Burning Man (Excerpt) Brian Doherty The Denver Post September 02004
If Tomorrow Comes Vikas Kumar The Economic Times (India) August 02004

Odds And Ends: Sometimes science can be aided and abetted by a wager or two

Scott LaFee The San Diego Union-Tribune August 02004
Blick in die Zukunft auf der Ars Electronica N/A Heise Online August 02004
Science Direct: Integrated 1000-year planning Bruce E. Tonn Science Direct August 02004

Interview with Stewart Brand (In Japanese Only)
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Kazuhiro Taira Asahi Shimbun July 02004

 

Record Review

 

Stephen Fruitman Sonomu.net July 02004
Camping For Gearheads Daniel Dubno CBS News July 02004
The Clock of the Long Now Diagram of Clock appears on the back cover, courtesy Rolfe Horn and The Long Now Foundation The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Bulletin February 02004
Slowness (Real Audio File) Jean Feraca Wisconsin Public Radio: Here On Earth May 27th, 02004
Vini Per Battere Il Tiempo N/A Class April 02004
- Mission Info
- Long Now

ESA Rosetta Mission Launch

European Space Agency website March 2004
Taking The Long, Long View Cameron Smith Toronto Star, Ontario Edition February 25, 02004
Down In The Dumps Jane Withers
Observer Magazine January 25, 2004
Brian Eno
January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now (Opal)

Jeff Stratton
New Times Broward-Palm Beach (Florida)
December 18, 02003
Stewart Brand and the 'Long Now'
Dave Roos Tech TV August 26th, 02003
Time Machines Lisa Mitchell The Age, Australia August 19, 02003
Un projet de plateforme veut sauvegarder les fichiers numériques pour l'éternité
Alexandre Piquard
Transfert.net August 26, 02003
Playlist Jon Pareles The New York Times August 24, 02003
For Whom The Bells Toll David Bank The Wall Street Journal August 14, 02003
Futurists Bet Online For Charities Rico Gagliano

Minnesota Public Radio: Marketplace

August 6, 02003

Tick Tock,
Tick Tock

Michael Bracewell Sunday Independent UK July 27, 02003
Nu Skal De Sma Sprog Reddes Graphic By Ib Saloman Illustreret Vindenskab June 31, 02003
Group Crafts Message For Future Humans KRON-TV KRON-TV June 13,02003
Rosetta Disk KRON-TV

KRON-TV

San Francisco

June 6, 02003
Billboard Bits: Twain, Who, Eno, Bad Moon Music Troy Carpenter Billboard.com June 6, 02003
Brian Eno sort un album pour "penser à long terme" Alexandre Piquard Transfert.net June 5, 02003
The Memory of the World Petra Thorbrietz BMW Magazine March 02003
The Future is Coming On Simon Rust Lamb BPM Culture

January/February
02003

The Rosetta Project David Wells AirLines January/February 02003
Radio interview with Stewart Brand Danny Pederson-Bradbury Radio Arthur January 14, 02003
Global mission races to save dying languages
n.a. University of Melbourne January 14, 02003
Cosmic message in a bottle n.a. BBC News January 13, 02003
The one thing you can predict about predictions is that there'll be a lot of them Scott LaFee SignOnSanDiego.com January 1, 02003
Long Now Project n.a. Wikipedia N.A.
Forscher speichern Sprachen für die Nachwelt Hilmar Poganatz Die Welt December 23, 02002

Rosetta disk goes back to the future

NA ESA Science December 4, 02002
Scientific wagers: Wanna bet? Jim Giles Nature November 28, 02002
Rosettska deska budoucnosti Lenka Bartunkova www.novinky.cz
November 21, 02002
Resgate de línguas esquecidas Marcelo Nóbrega Internet of Jornal do Brasil November 18, 02002
Hälsning till framtiden Jan Melin Ny Teknik
November 13, 02002
Sprachen für die Ewigkeit Sascha Klein Spiegel Online November 7, 02002
Word Up: Keeping Languages Alive
Kendra Mayfield Wired News November 4, 02002
A Rosetta salva o galego por 2000 anos n.a. Vieiros November 4, 02002
Thinking Long-Term n.a. Real Buisness November, 02002
Future Speak Micheal Scott Moore SF Weekly October 9, 02002
¡Que se nos mueren! Neus Arqués La Gazzetta October 02002
A Clock for All Time W. Wayt Gibbs Scientific American September, 02002
Wanna Bet?
Amy Harmon The New York Times September 1, 02002
Project Preserves Diversity of Language in Miniature Emily Singer Los Angeles Times August 12, 02002
Etching a New Rosetta Stone W. Wayt Gibbs Scientific American August 02002
Blinded by Science Patricia Leigh Brown The New York Times July 14, 02002
No instant winners at Longbets.org Andy Jordon CNN.com May 31, 02002
Longbets.org : la fin des prédictions gratuites Chantal Dussuel Interactif May 20, 02002
Taking a longer term view Nick Flaherty Electronic Engineering Times May 5, 2002
techsploitation
Annalee Newitz The San Francisco Bay Guardian April 26, 02002
What the Betting on 'Blogs' Holds for Newspapers Leslie Walker
The Washington Post April 14, 02002
Charities sure winners from nonprofit's long shots
William Brand Oakland Tribune Online April 12, 02002
Wanna Bet? Martha Baer Wired April 4, 02002
Brainy bettors lay odds... Dan Fost San Francisco Chronicle April 3, 02002
Long Bets: Accountable Predictions

Pascale Soleil Both2And--- Beyond Binary April 2, 02002
Sticking it out long-term
Jamie Heller CBS Marketwatch April 2, 02002
Money Backs Up Predictions Andrew Zipern The New York Times April 1, 02002
Exec place bet on tech's future Stephanie Olsen ZDNet March27, 02002
Wetten bis ans Ende der Zeiten ANW Heise Online March27, 02002
Flugzeugwette: Microsoft gegen Google   RP online March27, 02002
Charity is winner in Long Term Wagers Dan Gillmor The San Jose Mercury News March 26, 02002
The Whole Critter Catalog Kendra Mayfield Wired News March 13, 02002
The Long Now Foundation - A Solution to Short-term Thinking Henry Rothwell 360 (BBC) March 6, 02002
L'ora di Internet Paola Parmendola Orologi Februrary, 02002
Taxonomists Unite to Catalog Every Species, Big and Small David Bank The Wall Street Journal January 22, 02002

Telling Timepiece
Creating The Clock

Lisa M Kreiger

San Jose Mercury News

January 8th, 02002
All Species Inventory Jack Hitt

New York Times

December 9th, 02001
The Speed of Information Architecture Peter Morville Semantic Studios November 14, 2001
An Ark for Languages NA

Science Magazine

October, 02001
Up for the Count? Andrew Lawler

Science Magazine

October 26th, 02001
Count Every Living Thing Part I, II, III Jon Carrol

San Francisco Chronicle

October, 02001
An Icon for Our Time - Stewart Brand on the Ten-Thousand Year Clock Renee Lertzman

The Sun

September, 02001
Visions of a Wired Future Tracey Logan

BBC NEWS

September 3, 02001
The Long Now Plans 10,000 Year Clock Adam Phillips

VOANews.com

August 13, 02001
Whole Earth Visionary Andrew Brown

Guardian Unlimited - UK

August 4, 02001
The List of Life on Earth Anjana Ahuja

The Times - London

July 30 02001
The Rosetta Disk
n.a. Time International Magazine June 18th, 02001
Rosetta Disk is Foundation's Gift to Future Linguists David Bank The Wall Street Journal June 5, 02001
SPRACHSCHATZ FUR DIE ZUKUNFT”
n.a. Der Spiegel June 02001
Preserving Digital Information n.a.

NPR Radio

April 27, 02001
Communicating the World in 3 Inches n.a.

Vulcan Creative Labs

April, 02001
Rethinking Machines Tom Standage The Economist March 24, 02001
Rooftop roundtable yields tremors, revelations Brian J. Back

The Business Journal, Portland

March 2, 02001
The Rosetta Project   Verbatim Spring 02001
The Rosetta 1,000 Language Archive Jim Mason Endangered Language Fund Newsletter
Spring Edition
The Rosetta 1,000 Language Archive Jim Mason Terralingua Newsletter Spring Edition 02001
The Long Now an Interview with Stewart Brand San Marin and Matt Scanlon Mother Earth News January 29, 02001
Living in the Long Now A ten-thousand year clock ticks away the millenia. Emily Krill ThinkPop.org January 11, 02001
Time moves slowly: Foundation wants to build clock that would tick once a year Doug J. Swanson Dallas News.com January 7, 02001
La Rosetta: Pasado y Futuro del almacenamianto de datos Elena Sanz Ciencia Digital January, 02001
Information Overlord Tia O'Brian SiliconValley.com 02001
Interview with Alexander Rose n.a. Ted 11 Magazine 02001
Long Now, a Clock/Library Project
n.a. Prototypo November 02000
The Rosetta Disk Project n.a. Internet Today - Vietnam November 10, 02000
The Long Hello Mac Montandon Metropolis November, 02000
Die Uhr, die alle 100 Jahre einmal schlagt
Matthias Lerf Kultur, SonntagsZeitung October 02000
Interview with Alexander Rose on Incompatibility.net n.a. Incompatibilty.net October, 02000
The Rosetta Stone/Disk
Hachette Filipacchi QUO – Spain September 27, 02000
Microfiche on Steroids: The Rosetta Disk Brian Carnell Briancarnell.com August 10, 02000
Look at Humanity's Etchings , but will anyone understand them? Dan Gillmor Future Company July 14, 02000
Une Pierre de Rosette en Nickel? Yaroslav Pigenet Transfert July 4, 02000
Speichermedium für 10.000 Jahre n.a. Orf on Futurezone July 3, 02000
Brad Wieners Wired.com July, 02000
Archiving Today's Digital Culture Stephanie Izarek Fox News.com July 27, 02000
Tiny disk to record posterity Helen Sewell BBC News July 2, 02000
Preserving our history for future Dan Gillmor San Jose Mercury News July 1, 02000
Marking Time n.a. Networker@USC June, 02000
Whirlwind of Modern Life Christian Tyler Financial Times June 3, 02000
Time to Slow Down? Elizabeth Weil Fast Company May, 02000
A Clock to See You Through The Next 10,000 Years Patricia Leigh Brown The New York Times Aug 2, 02000
De Tijd is Op
n.a. Kijk April 02000
Why the future doesn't need us. Bill Joy Wired Magazine April, 02000
The Speed of Technology Roger Gathman austinchronicle.com March, 24, 02000
The Clock of the Long Now
Suart Price Mac User March, 02000
Test of Time
Jennifer Hillner Wired Magazine March 02000
What Time is it? Jeff Perrott IBM Magazine March, 02000
Frente al Sol
Claude Roulet Miti Miti March 02000
Time Machine- Stewart Brand Plans for the next 10,000 years
n.a. Comet Spring 02000
Tijd stroomt ook ter?
Dr. ir. A. de Graaf en drs. A. Steentjes De Ingenieur Mei 02000
The Clock of the Long Now (cover) Joan Taylor Internet Computing Magazine January, 02000
Lessons From Long Now Roger Smith Software Development Magazine January, 02000
Monument to the Future Virginia Lee Common Ground The Millennium Issue

The Clock of the Long Now: Research Digital Journey-Stories from a Networked Planet

n.a. Sun.com 02000
Y12K Clock KSL TV KSL TV December 30, 01999
About Time Keith Devlin Mathematics Association of America December 01999
Built to Last
n.a. New York Times Magazine December 5 01999
Telling Time n.a. Speakeasy
December 01999
Time: Taking a Broader View
n.a. The Inner Edge December. 01999
Y10K-The 10,000 Year Clock
n.a. Scholastic Science News Nov./Dec. 01999
Clock of Ages
Brian Hayes The Sciences Nov./Dec. 01999
The Millennium Clock
Alexander Rose Dragonfly Nov/Dec 01999
When Worlds Collide
Peter Esmonde Artbyte Nov./Dec. 01999
Measuring our Escape Velocity as We Exit the 20th Century
Michael Castelluccio Strategic Finance November 01999
Slow Down
Phil Leggiere Upside November 01999
Clocking the Year 10,000
Matt Goldberg Yahoo Internet Life Magazine November 01999
Das Lange Jetzt
Petra Steinberger Q Das Compaq Magazin November 01999
The 10,000-Year Clock
Cynthia G. Wagner The Futurist Magazine October 01999
Now and Forever Tia O'Brien Silicon Valley Magazine Oct. 4, 01999
Its about Time
Jill Kramer Pacific Sun September 01999
Millennium Clock Finds Home Tia O'Brien Upside Sep. 21, 01999
Project looks ahead-way ahead
Patrick O’Driscoll USA Today September 30, 01999
Long About Now
Kevin Ripp Ten by Ten Aug/Sept 1999
Leben in Zeitlupe
Monika Evers Weitbild Magazine August 01999
In Nevada, clock may mark the passing of millenniums Tom Knudson The Sacramento Bee Aug. 26, 01999
Not Times Fool Model Reasoning Model Reasoning August 01999
The Latest Wonder of the World
Elias Crim IntellectualCapital.com July 8, 01999
At the third stoke, the time will be 2300
John L Casti Nature July 01999
Thinking in Future Tense Sylvia Rubin San Francisco Chronicle Jul. 22, 01999
Timekeeping Jerome Burne Financial Times Jun. 5, 01999
The Y10K Clock
ABC News Online chat transcript
Richard Martin ABCnews.com Jun. 4, 01999
The Pundit- Stewart Brand
Jason Pontin Red Herring June 01999
The Clock of the Long Now
Diane Anderson Lehrer Industry Standard June 28, 01999
Time Can Wait Tom Deveson Times Educational Supplement May 28, 01999
Long-long-term planning: 10,000-year clock
Margie Wylie San Francisco Examiner May 17, 01999
Millennium Clock Takes The Long View Margie Wylie MSNBC May. 13, 01999
Time in a Bottle Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell New York Times Apr. 22, 01999
Interview with Stewart Brand Interview by christopher usery Front Wheel Drive Apr. 20, 01999
Founder of The Well is on The Clock By Kimberly & Michael Baldwin ZDTV Apr. 5, 01999
A Sustainable Future Juana Ponce de León Fast Forward Apr. 01999
Zeit fur die Ewigkeit
Johrzehntousenduhr Chronos Mars/April 01999
L'Ordinateur Millenaire
Emile Servan-Schreiber SVM Mars 01999
Construit pour Durer
n.a. Sciences et Avenir Mars 01999
Clock of Ages Steven Levy Newsweek Jan. 26, 01999
Silicon Valley Futurists Devise 10,000-Year Cuckoo Clock Paul Van Slambrouck Christian Science Monitor Jan. 25, 01999
Third Culture Interview with Daniel Hillis
John Brockman Edge.Org Jan. 25, 01999

Site sought for giant clock designed to last 10,000 years

Steve Connor The Independent, UK Jan. 11 01999
One Hundred Centuries From Now Ed hunt Tidepool Jan.15, 01999
“Ein Uhwerk fur die Ewigkeit”
Cristopher Drosser & Ludwig Siegele Die Zeit Magazine Jan. 01999
Millennium Timepiece Reena Jana Wired Magazine 7.01 Jan. 01999
The Clock of the Long Now
Geoffrey Wain Ecos, A review of conservation 01999
Beyond 2000: Changing Perceptions of Time from Minutes to Millennia
Gene Lewis Madison Dec 98/Jan99
Across the Abyss n.a. The Economist Dec. 19, 01998
The Magic Clock Sean Roberts New Scientist Magazine Dec. 01998
Go Long Jim Sterne CIO November 1998
The Worlds Slowest Computer.pdf
David Bloom L.A. Daily News Oct. 4, 01998
Looking For the Long Now.pdf
Douglas Page Spirit Inflight Magazine Oct. 01998
The Clock of the Long Now (interview)
John Brockman Edge.Org Aug. 01998
The Long Now: Time-Traveling With Danny Hillis
Po Bronson Wired Magazine May 01998
Chrono Crisis: A culture obsesses with time (Paul Saffo quoted) Paul Van Slambrouck Christian Science Monitor
March 5, 01998
Ahead of His Time (Brian Eno)
Tom Samiljan

TimeOut

NewYork Issue 128

March 5-12, 01998
A Vision For The Past
Karen Kaplan L.A. Times (Re: Time & Bits) Feb. 16, 01998
No Way to Run A Culture
Steve Meloan Wired News (Re: Time & Bits) Feb. 16, 01998
Culture and Technological Obsolescence
Anne Pierce Wired News (Re: Time & Bits) Feb. 6, 01998
When The Future is Now
Paul D. Kretkowski Wired News Jan. 9, 01998
The Next Magic Kingdom (Danny Hillis Excerpt)

The Next Magic Kingdom (whole article)
David Remnick The New Yorker Oct. 20 & 27, 01997
Day After Tomorrowland Jonathan Burke Red Herring Magazine May 01997
The Speed Trap Jay Walljasper UTNE Reader Mar. 01997

 

Published Articles By Board Members:

Article Name Author Publication Date
The Power to Shape the World W. Daniel Hillis Communications of the ACM July 02002
Taking the Long View Stewart Brand Time Magazine (special edition) April 02000
The Rosetta Disk Kevin Kelly Whole Earth Magazine Winter 2000
Impatient Pendulum W. Daniel Hillis Forbes A.S.A.P Nov. 01998
Friction Freedom Esther Dyson Forbes A.S.A.P Nov. 01998
Written on the Wind Stewart Brand Civilization Magazine Nov. 01998
The Big Picture W. Daniel Hillis Wired Magazine 6.01 Jan. 01998
A Time of Transition \ the human connection W. Daniel Hillis Communications of the ACM Vol. 40, No. 2 Feb. 01997
Reframing The Problems Stewart Brand Paper invited by the David and
Lucille Packard Foundation
01996
The Millennium Clock W. Daniel Hillis Wired Magazine Scenarios Issue 01995
Two Questions Stewart Brand Wired Magazine Scenarios Issue 01995
Special Relativity: W. Daniel Hillis How Things Are 01995
Balancing a Design W. Daniel Hillis IEEE Spectrum, vol. 24, no. 5 May 01987
Why Computer Science is No Good W. Daniel Hillis International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol 21, Nos. 3/4 01982


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These images are scans of large format photographs taken by Rolfe Horn. If you would like high resolution drum scans email or call Simone Davalos in our office. (415-561-6582) We also have BetaCam SP footage available of the finished prototype and some of the work that led up to it. 01/25/02000
Prototype Face Digram.pdf 78Kb n.a. This small Acrobat diagram shows the different parts of the clock face we are using in the first prototype. 12/28/01998
Tungsten.pdf 1727Kb JPEG This large Acrobat file depicts the first part we had made for the clock along with Danny hillis' wonderful description of how it was designed. 12/2/01998

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