The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility

This book proposes a hundred years as a minimum threshold for long-term thinking. This is the current length of a long human lifespan, taking us beyond the ego boundary of our own mortality so we begin to imagine futures that we can influence yet not participate in ourselves.16 It extends much further than the maximum five or ten-year outlook found

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Especially important here are long-term shifts in societies – what Fernand Braudel described as the ‘longue durée’ – counterposing these to a short-term focus upon events. Braudel talks of ‘history whose passage is almost imperceptible, that of man [sic] in relationship to his environment, a history in which all change is slow, a history of constan

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