The Long Now Foundation | 6,188 followers on LinkedIn. Fostering long-term thinking and responsibility | The Long Now Foundation is a globally-recognized champion of long-term thinking and responsibility founded in 01996 by Stewart Brand, Danny Hillis, and Brian Eno. We believe that civilization-scale challenges call for civilization-scale thinking. We are working toward a world rich in imagination and possibility that provides a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture, a world in which we all take the long-term future and the long-term past seriously.