>It's awfully presumptuous that people are going to care 50 years from now, let alone 10,000 years from now.

The clock is amusing, but for me it's more about the seminars, and promoting the (content of) the books written by the lecturers.
People are making the future all day, every day, with billions of tiny, unnoticeable decisions, whether they intend to contribute to big outcomes or not. the futures we think we will probably live in are usually rooted in several assumptions which are already demonstrably false. The seminars show this, and give us a better understanding of what our individual choices mean in a larger context where we can either face the fact that we are making the future all the time whether we like it or not... or simply go on ignoring the issue.

If you attend even one of the lectures, I think you'll be surprised by at least one or two things that they lecturers have to say; often about life in the distant PAST. So much of what never made sense to me in history and social studies classes just turns out to be hooey; Long Now shows me the science behind the doubts I've always had about human life and its conditions.

'Maybe there is no future. But if there is, it might have been nice to have done something about it.'
-Brian Eno

I'm a fan too... so much so that I have a bag of clothes for her in my closet... Simone... come get some new threads!

I don't go to Long Now functions because I have a very short attention spanned toddler who is way cuter than Jim Mason or Stewart Brand. He's cuter than most humans - cuter than Simone even. And she's harp seal clubbin' cute.