Long Now Foundation

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The Long Now Foundation

Formation	January 4, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-01-04)
Type	501(c)(3)
Tax ID no.	68-0384748
Registration no.	C1956835
Headquarters	Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California, US
Coordinates	37°48′23″N 122°25′56″W / 37.8064591°N 122.4321258°W / 37.8064591; -122.4321258
Key people	President Stewart Brand, Brian Eno
Website	longnow.org

The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is an American non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to start and promote a long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" thinking. The Long Now Foundation hopes to "creatively foster responsibility" in the framework of the next 10,000 years. In a manner somewhat similar to the Holocene calendar, the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem^[1] (e.g., by writing the current year "02024" rather than "2024"). The organization's logo is X, a capital X with an overline, a representation of 10,000 in Roman numerals.