Long Now

"As the Long Now Foundation co-founder Stewart Brand describes it, 'civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span', driven by 'the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking'. (...) Inspired by computer scientist Daniel Hill’s idea for a Stonehenge-sized clock that 'ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium'. The foundation proposes a number of projects and guidelines for restoring long-term thinking, including 'minding mythic depth', 'rewarding patience', and 'allying with competition'" (daqui)