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Link Name	Description
Short Bets	Middle School Students make predictions about science and technology. A scholarship program sponsored by Pfizer and Wired Magazine, inspired by Long Bets.
Slow Walk	Interdisciplinary artist Ohad Fishof will lead a "very Slow Walk" on a set route across London Bridge and back, beginning with the morning rush hour on Tuesday, the 21st of June, the longest day of the year.
Toshiba's 10,000 Year Clock	Man-nen Dokei, a clock built in 1851, is to be refurbished by the Toshiba Museum (new Scientist subscription required for whole article)
200 Year Software	The problem of long-lasting software
As Slow as Possible	To commemorate John Cage’s eighty ninth birthday on Sept. 5, 2001 a performance of his work ORGAN2/ASLSP lasting 639 years began to sound – played on an organ built especially for this single concert.
The Atlanta Time Machine	The Atlanta Time Machine website is dedicated to examining the history of Atlanta, Georgia by comparing vintage photographs of Atlanta with much more contemporary images shot, more or less, from the same perspective of the original photographer.
The Ten Thousand Year Blog	A vast and nicely laid out collection of news and utilities for digital archiving and long term thinking in general.
The Laboratory of Tree Ring Research	The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at The University of Arizona was founded in 1937 by A. E. Douglass, founder of the modern science of dendrochronology. The LTRR is a research unit in the College of Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Read more about the history of the LTRR.
In Pursuit Of The Future	A Three-year research project of The Economics and Social Research Council in Wales, UK.
The Ozymandias Project	A project by David Green of The New School University
Digital Preservation Coalition	The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) was established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure the global digital memory and knowledge base.
PADI	PADI (preserving access to digital information) is a subject gateway to digital preservation resources, hosted by the National Library of Australia.
U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network	The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes operating at long time scales and over broad spatial scales.
Exploratorium	The excellent site for San Francisco's Exploratorium: Exploranet.
Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant	Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion
Encyclopedia Britannica	A subscription based service that gives you the most up to date encyclopedia information.
The Institute of Human Origins	Where Donald Johansen and Lucy are.
White Pine Historical and Archaelogical Society	Because History Deserves to be Shared, We Are Enriching the Present By Preserving the Past! We proudly present the following information for the benefit of our citizens and visitors in Ely and White Pine County, Nevada.
Frederick S. Pardee Center	The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University
Eternally Yours	A Foundation and book from Europe that talks about making products that last

Link Name	Description
Library of Congress	The list of books in the library and many other resources that they offer.
National Archives	The Center for Electronic Records. In the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA's) efforts to ensure ready access to essential evidence, the Center for Electronic Records appraises, accessions, preserves and provides access to U.S. Federal Government electronic records of continuing value.
Internet Archive	Where Brewster Kahle and his company are archiving the entire internet.
The KEO Project	Sending a satellite into space with a billion pages of text written onto tempered glass DVD's to return in 50,000 years. You can add your own message on the website free.
Digipress	Makers of a tempered glass CD and DVD disk for long term data storage. This is the medium being used for the KEO Project.
Getty Conservation Institute	The Getty Conservation Institute works internationally to further the appreciation and preservation of the world's cultural heritage for the enrichment and use of present and future generations.
Family Tree Maker	Broderbund's family tree software in the hands of millions of people getting connected together to make the Grand Family Tree.
The Commission on Preservation and Access and The Research Libraries Group, Inc.	Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information.
The National Media Laboratory	The National Media Laboratory (NML) is an industry resource supporting the U.S. Government in the evaluation, development, and deployment of advanced storage media and systems.
Conservation OnLine	Resources for Conservation Professionals
Howard Besser	Information technology in education and museums.
Universal Preservation Format	This site disseminates information about the proposed "Universal Preservation Format" for the archiving of media assets.
The Dead Media Project	How long will it be before the much-touted World Wide Web interface is itself a dead medium? And what will become of all those billions of thoughts, words, images and expressions poured onto the Internet?
CNRI	The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) undertakes, fosters, and promotes research in the public interest. (many digital continuity projects)
D-Lib Magazine	D-Lib Magazine offers monthly stories, commentary, and briefings; a collection of resources for digital library research; and access to D-Lib's Working Groups.
Norsam	Makers of the HD Rosetta product, a multi-millennial storage medium.
Voyager's Interstellar Outreach Program	Where you can find out about the contents of the Voyager's collection of goodies...For any interstellar traveller that may find it.
Digital Library Journal	LJDigital is an electronic offshoot of Library Journal, the oldest independent national library publication.
The International Dunhuang Project	A deliberately inaccessible repository of 10th century manuscripts discovered not too long ago. Now in the British Library collection.
LOCKSS	Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe, a new Stanford archival project.
The Intermemory Initiative	Aims to develop highly survivable and available storage systems made up of widely distributed processors that are individually unreliable and untrustworthy -- with the overall system nevertheless secure.
PURL	A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator.

Link Name	Description
The Pitch Drop Experiement	In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into glass funnel with a sealed stem. Three years were allowed for the pitch to settle, and in 1930 the sealed stem was cut. From that date on the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel.
Charles Babbage Institute	About Charles Babbage, mechanical computation history as well as digital continuity.
Egyptology	EGYPTOLOGY.COM Is the portal to the past for The Land of Ancient Egypt on the World Wide Web.
World Clock	A satellite generated image of earth projected onto a flat plane showing areas of light and dark with many changeable parameters.
Calendar	Reingold and Dershowitz create a Digital Calendar Library.
NIST Web Clock	A Java clock set to the atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It also shows you your computer's clock so you can see how far it is off of NIST time.
Horology Index	Horological, the study of timekeeping, index of web sites.
British Horological Institute	Great resource, they are currently working on a 1000 year clock.
NAWCC	NAWCC, The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors,Inc., is a nonprofit and scientific corporation founded in 1943 and now serving the horological interests of more than 35,000 members around the world.
A Walk Through Time	A site by NIST which depicts the evolution of time measurement.
Calendar Explaination	A good description of calendrics from Nova.
Daylight Saving	A great description of the hows and whys of Daylight Saving Time.

Link Name	Description
Tales From the Crypt	How a handful of Mormons with an infrared camera unlocked the secrets buried beneath Vesuvius.
The Moment of Long Now	The Moment of Long Now is an alternative news tv channel. The channel is showing short snippets of news footage with a pace that is a hundred times slower than what we are used to.
Generational Flow/an altar	An altar created by Peter Adams: "Stand before it, move into it. Expand out of a narrowing sense of present time and push its/your boundaries into deep time. "
Lessons from Lost Worlds	An article on long term thinking written by Jared Diamond published in Time Magazine in August 02002.
Star Axis	Star Axis is both an Earth/Sky sculpture and a naked eye observatory. Presently under construction atop a small mesa where the Sangre de Cristo mountains meet the eastern plains . . .
Longplayer	By Jem Finer - A thousand year musical composition, it will play continuously and without repetition from January 1 02000 to December 31st 02999. . .
Global Business Network	A consulting firm specializing in collaborative learning about the future and scenario planning .
Institute for the Future	The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a nonprofit applied research and consulting firm dedicated to understanding technological, economic, and societal changes and their long-range domestic and global consequences.
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies	The Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies (HRCFS) was created by the Hawaii State Legislature in 1971. Placed within the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Hawaii, it serves as a research arm for public agencies that require assistance in locating future-oriented information or experts.
Science Fiction Space Technology	An interesting look at how early science fiction correlated with and influenced space technology.
Earth & Moon View	You can get live and interactive views of the earth and moon here.
Lightning Field	A piece built in 1977 by the American sculptor Walter De Maria...amazing.
Roden Crater	James Turrell has reshaped the top of a crater by transforming it into a hemispherical dish with a rim all at one height. The modified bowl functions as a huge Skyspace and manipulates the phenomenon of celestial vaulting.
Year 3000	A web site dedicated to the turning of THIRD millennium C.E.
Geosphere Project	The purpose of The GeoSphere Project is to make complex global systems understandable. Through the use of technology we are creating visualizations that illustrate and enhance our understanding of Earth processes.
Ecological Packaging Resources	They search for ways to use new packaging and printing technologies that are both economically accessible to the small manufacturer, and suitable for international distribution.
Mars Society	Though Mars is distant, we are far better prepared today to send humans to Mars than we were to travel to the Moon at the commencement of the space age. Given the will, we could have our first teams on Mars within a decade.

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