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The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking are available online, in audio (MP3 and Ogg Vorbis) and in some cases text formats. Presenters include Brian Eno, Danny Hillis, Peter Schwartz, Bruce Sterling, Stewart Brand, Paul Hawken, and others.

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to todays "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
* The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.

A model for the Long Now Foundation is the Shinto Shrine at Ise, which is rebuilt every 20 years:

Its first incarnation was in 04 C.E. This type of design, which utilises ephemeral materials while capitalizing on the human element, is a great inspiration for The Long Now Foundation. This object has done something which Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids have not; it aided the survival of its institution.