10,000 Year Clock
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- mg33
Just learned about this last night from a speaker at an event I went to. Very cool to think about how to approach a project like this.
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We are building a 10,000 Year Clock. It's a special Clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking. It's of monumental scale inside a mountain in West Texas. The father of the Clock is Danny Hillis. He's been thinking about and working on the Clock since 1989. He wanted to build a Clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. The vision was, and still is, to build a Clock that will keep time for the next 10,000 years. I've been helping Danny with the project for the last half dozen years. As I see it, humans are now technologically advanced enough that we can create not only extraordinary wonders but also civilization-scale problems. We're likely to need more long-term thinking.
- nb0
Elect Stewart Brand to president of the world!
- Justin0
neat idea
- mg330
^ Yep - pretty cool idea for sure. I was reading an article about it on some site last night and all these people were so judgmental of it. Jeff Bezos put up $45 million for this, so naturally he was called out for "wasting" money instead of putting it towards something more charitable. People are so stupid...
- nb0
If you like this, check out Long Bets. http://longbets.org
Fun to read and imagine.
- i_monk0
The Long Now Foundation
http://longnow.org/clock/
- imagineallthepeople0
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kind of like"Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of one of the longest-lasting musical performances yet undertaken. It was originally written in 1987 for organ and is adapted from the earlier work ASLSP 1985; a typical performance of the piano version lasts 20 to 70 minutes.In 1985, Cage opted to omit the detail of exactly how slowly the piece should be played.
The performance of the organ version at St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany, began in 2001 and is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, ending in 2640."