The TimTim Millennium Trust
What would a thousand-year archive—designed by leading scholars across disciplines—need in order to survive the next century, the next five centuries, and the next millennium?
This is the question at the heart of the TimTim Millennium Trust, a global initiative dedicated to preserving humanity's everyday stories, languages, and cultural expressions for at least 1,000 years, so they remain accessible and meaningful to the people of the year 3025 and beyond.
We are reaching out not for funding or institutional resources—only for your insight as a scholar, custodian of knowledge, and expert in a discipline that shapes how humanity understands itself.
Throughout history, the preservation of human knowledge was made possible by the work of scholars...
The TimTim Millennium Trust seeks to create the world's first multi-civilizational, multi-generational, and multi-format human memory archive—and we believe that professors and universities must play a **foundational role** in shaping its architecture.
Your expertise—whether in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, archival studies, or engineering—is vital to defining this archive's 1,000-year viability.
For Scholars & Institutions
A Foundational Role in a 1,000-Year Project
We are inviting colleges, universities, and individual scholars to act as co-custodians and critical thinkers in the design of this archive. The trust is self-funded; what we seek is your **insight, critique, and imagination**.
Millennial-Scale Cultural Preservation
This initiative is creating a new field: Millennial-Scale Cultural Preservation —a hybrid discipline where anthropology, archival science, ethics, and engineering intersect. Together, we can define the intellectual foundations of this emerging field, creating an archive capable of outliving civilizations.
No Institutional Burden
The Trust is supported by AdMerk Corp Inc., a profit-for-purpose global enterprise. **Every dollar earned** through our business ecosystem directly fuels long-term archival research and multi-century storage.
We are asking for **no grants**, no endowment contributions, no funding from governments or universities institutions. Your expertise—not your budget—is what we seek.
Your Discipline Will Shape the Future Archive
Governance & Stewardship
- • Long-term institutional resilience
- • Intergenerational custodianship
- • Global governance structures
- • Protecting from political influence
Cultural & Linguistic Preservation
- • Future-proof metadata
- • Meaning preservation across time
- • Indigenous protocols
- • Representing diverse cultures equitably
Archival Science & Technology
- • Multi-format redundancy
- • Analog + digital + biological preservation
- • Standards for 500–1,000 year survivability
AI & Ethics
- • Algorithmic transparency
- • Long-term AI oversight
- • Ethical curation of human narratives
Your discipline will shape part of a system intended to survive long after our era has passed, and your expertise is needed to help refine these components.
Join the Founding Academic Advisory Circle
You are invited to join the Founding Academic Advisory Circle—and your university or college as co-custodial partner—in a global network of scholars and institutions contributing to the creation of the world's first 1,000-year cultural archive.
Your contribution can be as brief as a single page of critique, or as extensive as ongoing collaboration, research partnerships, or advising. Even one thoughtful paragraph may influence what survives for future generations.
Primary Contact
Pierre-Richard Augustin, MPA, MBA
Founder, TimTim Millennium Trust
📞 (617) 202-8069