Long Now 10-second Intro animation Conceived by Alexander Rose, James Anderson and Chris Baldwin | Sound by Brian Eno The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the "Y10K" problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. As you may have noti
"I’m not a moralist. I’m a pragmatist operating at a level of long-term vision and ruthlessness that is difficult for most people to wrap their minds around (and perhaps impossible for you). I don’t give a shit about “right thought” as long as I can elicit the behaviors I want, and I believe “right thought” usually follows changes in behavior as a rationalization rather than causally preceding them." - Eric S. Raymond, comment to own article