Renowned author @GhoshAmitav was the 12th contributor to the Future Library. His sealed manuscript, “Letter to My Grandson” won't be read until 02114.  Read his essay on why this project was so personally meaningful to him, and how it relates to deep time: na2.hubs.ly/H08hwRG0

“Imagine a pitch that starts with, ‘This is going to take 100 years.’ And then, ‘We’ll also need a forest.’ And on top of that, ‘We’ll also need famous writers.’” @FuturelibraryNO is a century-long artwork that grows a forest to print a library of future books that will remain sealed and unread until 02114. In this story from @emilybynight: how that vision was made real, and what it will take to keep it alive: longnow.org/ideas/future-lib… artwork by @caseycripe

Laurie Anderson — writer, director, artist, musician — has been selected as the Future Library’s next contributor.  Creator of Future Library, artist and Long Now Council member Katie Paterson, told The Guardian, “Laurie Anderson has spent a lifetime sending signals into the unknown. For decades, she has explored how we tell stories, how we remember, and how we imagine what is yet to come. Moving freely between language, music, visual art, technology and performance, her work travels between the intimate and the planetary, love and loss, politics and poetry, with humour, tenderness and wonder.” na2.hubs.ly/H07CV9p0

Fantastic reporting on the recent Future Library handoff ceremony, including great context on the landscape of long-term art projects around the world from @VOGUEIndia

Earlier this month, @FuturelibraryNO held their annual handover ceremony in a quiet forest in Norway. Conceived by artist and Long Now Council member Katie Paterson, Future Library invites writers to contribute manuscripts to a collection that won't open until next century. This year Tommy Orange and @GhoshAmitav presented their new manuscripts among trees that will provide paper for their books—which won't be printed until the year 02114. Long Now’s Danielle Engelman traveled to Oslo for the event. Stay tuned for a full report in our annual print journal Pace Layers.  In the meantime, read more about Future Library here: na2.hubs.ly/H06xY5q0 na2.hubs.ly/H06x-wR0

[Open call] Long Now Labs is looking for new concepts for marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Submissions will be reviewed by our incredible panel of artists, philosophers, and technologists. The winning 25 concepts will be included in a Long Now print book and digital anthology. The top 3 will be developed into working prototypes. Submissions close in two weeks, deadline June 5. Read the full prompt and apply here: na2.hubs.ly/H05H-870

For Earth Day 02026, we're thinking about 02114. That's the year Katie Paterson's @FuturelibraryNO will finally open: a library for readers who haven’t been born yet. Artist and Long Now council member Katie Paterson has spent the last decade building the Future Library in Oslo, Norway. Over the next 100 years one writer every year will contribute a text. The writings are held in trust, unread and unpublished, until the year 02114. A forest was planted to supply paper for the books when they’re ready to publish, a century from now. So far the library includes works from Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Sjón, Elif Shafak, Han Kang, Karl Ove Knausgård and more. More about the project here: na2.hubs.ly/H04-ml00