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What problems can human beings only solve over a very long period of time? And how can we build institutions that solve those problems? Below is a list of marvellous projects which human beings have undertaken over an exceptionally long time. Many examples contributed by people on Twitter.
The focus is on goal-directed projects (e.g., a scientific experiment or a building), less on more decentralized or unplanned changes (e.g., languages, domestication of livestock, cities, religions). The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem involved an incredible amount of mathematics developed over decades and centuries: wikipedia. I won't be surprised if certain standards still show up in a thousand years, perhaps in a modified form.
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