About the artist
The Long Now Foundation is a public, non-profit organisation based in San Francisco which hopes to provide a counterpoint to today’s accelerating culture and to help make long-term thinking more common.
Work
Rosetta Disk
2009
The Rosetta Disk is part of the Rosetta Project, a digital archive of the world’s languages. It contains over 13,000 pages of information in over 1,500 human languages, but each page is only 400 microns across and has to be read through a microscope.