# Long Now Foundation
**Domain:** Long-Term Thinking / Cultural Infrastructure
**Doc Type:** Institution Node
**Maturity:** Evolving
**Related:** [[Long Now]], [[Stewart Brand]], [[Whole Earth Catalog]], [[Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|continuity infrastructure]]
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## Definition
The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit institution founded to foster responsibility and imagination across very long time horizons.
## Corpus Context
Its preservation of Whole Earth history connects [[Stewart Brand]]'s tool-access lineage to durable archives, continuity and institutions designed beyond short political cycles.
## Relationships
[[Long Now]], [[Stewart Brand]], [[Whole Earth Catalog]], [[Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|continuity infrastructure]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]
- https://longnow.org/