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Designing for 10,000 years. How do we warn the future, save knowledge, and build stuff that lasts? WIPP/Onkalo, Svalbard, the Long Now clock, the Rosetta Disk, and Voyager.

0:00 Intro
0:40 Shortsighted humanity
2:46 Patterns of Use
3:49 Humanity's Oldest Design
7:25 Framer Sponsor Spot
9:00 Institutional Caretaking
11:35 Destruction of Cultural Objects
13:56 LOCKSS
16:30 The Greater Good & The Long Now
20:30 Attractors