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Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Libraries and Universities Are the Memory Institutions of Our Cultures

Of the thousand companies that we know of that are over 300 years old, a huge section is in the alcohol industry by a lot. And then as you get down into this, you start to find things like pharmaceudical companies, financial companies and universities. I think libraries are very interesting because they are the place where civilization stores its information for the future. Some of the other oldest institutions that we have in the world are universities. The university at bologna, italy, its was started in the eleventh century.

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