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Aug 13, 2006
"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." --Bonnie Friedman
The Clock of the Long Now
We can often find ourselves living for the moment instead of in it. Prompted by this fast (and getting faster) lifestyle of our world, a handful of key high-tech thinkers from San Francisco recently created the Long Now Foundation to provide a counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. Read this essay by a founding member of Long Now on The Ten Thousand Year Clock and how it encourages long-term thinking.
BE THE CHANGE
Check out the Ten Thousand Year Clock, which ticks only once a year, with a hand that advances only once a century, and which strikes only on the millennium! More ...
