Century Web Interfaces
Open-source time-based web interfaces designed to work across a century — including a Life Grid, and horizontal and vertical timeline scrollers.
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How to make long-term data preservation and access ubiquitous and easy
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Cryptomeria Man Base
Alexander Rose's officially selected design for the 2026 Burning Man Man Base — Cryptomeria, a participatory monument...
I want to burn your books!
The Clarisse McClellan Manual for Civilization Library at Burning Man 2025 — a Fahrenheit 451-inspired reading room of...
100 Year Plan
WordPress.com's 100-Year Plan offers a century of hosting security — LOCKSS-principle storage, numbered trust accounts, and...
The Emergence
A futurist's view of 2025: Alexander Rose on the contradictions and possibilities of our moment — AI, governance, climate, and...
Where the Cloud Touches the Ground
A firsthand tour of one of Automattic's data centers, exploring what truly long-term digital preservation of the open web...
2025: Who predicted this?
Alexander Rose looks back at 25 years of predictions — Y2K, 9/11, the pandemic, Bitcoin — examining what futurists got...
The Data of Long-lived Institutions
Research on which human institutions have lasted longest throughout history — examining the patterns and principles behind...
Long-term Building in Japan
Japan's Ise Shrine and Hōryū-ji Temple offer lessons in how to make a building, or an institution, last through millennia.
Long-Lived Institutions
Lessons from six long-term thinkers on how to create organizations that last — drawn from research at The Long Now...