Monumental 10,000 Year Clock to be built on Nevada mountaintop

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If you’re a member of the Long Now Foundation, you think about vast spans of time. That’s why the futurist think tankers put a 0 before every year to show how cool and forward-thinking they are (for example, this year is 02008). They’ve decided to build a huge mechanical clock on a piece of Nevada mountaintop property they bought, and they’re saying the symbolic time-counting monument will last 10,000 years, chosen because that’s “about how long humans have had a stable climate and technological progression.”
The picture above is a smaller 8-foot prototype of such a device, which was designed by Long Now co-founder and uber-genius Danny Hillis with help from author Neal Stephenson, whose new sci-fi novel Anathem features the clock and a quasi-religious society that tends to it over the millennia. The idea started with an essay Hillis wrote back in 01995 — click Continue for more.





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