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What's with the 5-digit year format? Premature prep for y10k?

The Long Now Foundation's mission is "Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now."

The leading zero is a way to trigger people to think about the next 10,000 years.

Interesting, thanks! I'd never heard of The Long Now Foundation before.

Interesting. Gets you wondering what else you might not have heard of.

> Interesting. Gets you wondering what else you might not have heard of.

Consider how much of a rabbit hole YouTube can be and then imagine that the subsection of humanity that uses or is able to use YouTube is just a small part of it. A few topics and projects get a lot of attention but there are - I suppose - millions more with a dedicated fan base.

Go easy, they’re one of today’s lucky 10,000

really depends how you read GP's comment. the tone is implied, or is it? read charitibly, y'know, sometimes I do wonder about the things I don't know. I have no idea beyond the surface about how my liver actually works, I don't know what it's like to give birth to a child, I don't know what it's like to go through chemotherapy or how that even actually works. The world is full of stuff I don't know and sometimes I stop a wonder about what I don't know that I don't know.

That’s longnow’s whole deal. Getting people to think about the future far beyond a human lifespan.

It is such a simple thing but it works so well.

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