Below are limited edition genuine and or working items. Each comes with a signed story written by Stewart Brand or Danny Hillis that shows its context and significance in the Long Now projects and objectives. The Clock parts are working parts that we would like to entrust to you as a caretaker. We would ask that if the Clock requires one of the parts you purchase in the next 10,000 years that you help keep the Clock working by making it available.
Signed Copies of Books By Long Now Board Members: |
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Long Now Wine: A wine has been named after our foundation by the Pelissero Winery in Italy. You can find more information on restaurants and wine shops that are carrying it here. |
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Bristlecone Pine Cone from Clock site in
Nevada: You can plant this in your back yard and grow a five thousand year old tree of your very own. These cones were carefully collected on our site in Nevada from the forest of Bristlecones on Long Now's property. |
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White limestone core sample from Clock site
in Nevada: Pieces of limestone from Long Now's property in Nevada where we hope to build the Clock underground. These are one inch diameter round core samples of varying length from four to seven inches long and varying shades from white to dark grey. |
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Bit Pin Lever: (200 made) |
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Equation of Time Cam: (5 made, 0 remaining) (Sold Out) This three dimensional hand cast bronze cam is used in the Clock to calculate the plus or minus fiteen minute deviation of solar time to absolute time for over 10,000 years. It is an actual working piece of the first prototype. |
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First Prototype of Rosetta Technology: (First
Run Sold Out) We are currently testing the Norsam micro-etching process with a prototype Rosetta Disk. The disk will include all the texts in the Rosetta database as of April 15, 02001, plus general information on the Rosetta Project and Long Now Foundation. The disk will have around 7,000 text pages, including 928 Genesis translations as well as a selection of orthographies. Click here to see the page layout design for the disk. |
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First Edition Rosetta Disk: (5 will be made,
2 remaining) We are creating a limited edition run of 25 Version 1.0 Rosetta Disks and Containers, which we are offering in exchange for donations of $25,000 and above. Proceeds will support our global collection efforts to build the 1,000 language archive and complete the disk. The delivery date is the summer of 2003. You can see the design for the disk and container in the "about this project" part of our site under "concept" and "design". Contact jimmason@longnow.org if you are interested in supporting the Rosetta Project through this donation. |
The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit organization (501c3) that relies on
private gifts and grants to fund its projects and programs. This online store
was made possible by a gift from Ryan Phelan in the hope that Long Now could
eventually become self funding. It is also possible to make a fully tax deductible
donation in our Contribution section.