Jeff Bezos Begins Construction of $42 Million 10,000 Year Clock
?I cannot imagine the future, but I care about it. I know I am a part of a story that starts long before I can remember and continues long beyond when anyone will remember me. ? I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century had advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium for the next 10,000 years.?
These are the words of Danny Hillis, an inventor and computer theorist responsible for designing the 10,000 Year Clock. The project is many years in the making, an endeavor advanced by Hillis and the Long Now Foundation. The idea first entered his mind in 1989. An eight-foot prototype was built nearly a decade later in 1999, ushering in the new millennia with two chimes in front of a small crowd in San Francisco. Now, 18 years later, work begins on the real thing. As you read this, dedicated teams in California and Seattle are working on putting together the 200-foot tall clock. A separate team in Texas is hollowing out a 500-foot cavern in a mountain that will house the impressive structure. What?s Bezos? involvement" He?s financing the project, providing $42 million in funding and donating the mountain (yes, it?s his mountain) that will be the clock?s eventual home.
“It’s a special Clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking.” – Jeff Bezos
The clock will tick forward only once a year. It will feature a chime generator capable of creating totally unique bell sequences every day for 10...
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