10000 year clock books

Long now, a nonprofit founded in 1996 by composer brian eno. It is a huge clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Its a special clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for longterm thinking. Bezos says the team has carved into the mountain five anniversary chambers, for 1, 10, 100, and 10,000 year anniversaries.

Jeff bezos 10,000 year clock offers a dash of tech optimism. Inventor danny hillis first proposed the 10,000year clock in wired in 1995, and has spent more than 15 years designing it. Nick axel what brought you to this idea of building a 10,000year clock daniel hillis i started thinking about it in the late 1980s, early 1990s. The first step in this multidecade project was to construct a working 8foottall prototype. This is one of several projects by long now to foster longterm thinking in the context of the next 10,000 years.

Amazon ceo jeff bezos shared video of his ambitious 10,000 year clock, which is under construction inside a west texas mountain. The clock is 500 feet tall and powered by the earths thermal cycles, bezos. The 10,000 year clock is intended as a symbolic reminder that we should consider the longterm impact of our actions. Amazons jeff bezos chimes in on 10,000 year clock as. Perched atop this apparatus, an orrery will display astronomical positions and the year.

Use updown scroll buttons to specify the 100year span of the calendar, and then print. Massive clock buried inside a texas mountain will keep. Alexander shares several design patents on the 10,000 year clock with danny hillis, the first prototype of which is in the science museum of london. And when it got to be the 1990s, people were still just thinking about the year 2000. Bezosbacked 10,000 year clock site preparation and. Long now foundation almost two decades in the making, the long now foundations 10,000 year clock is finally being built deep inside a. Danny hillis progress on the 10,000year clock blog. Design a clock that keeps time for the next 10,000 years. Discover long now orrery in san francisco, california. Installation progresses on bezosbacked 10,000year clock. The clock will activate once a year on a predetermined date at. The clock of the long now is a portrait of danny hillis and his brilliant team of inventors, futurists, and engineers as they build the 10,000 year clocka grand, stone hengelike monolith, being constructed in a mountain in west texas.

Its a special clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for long term thinking. The equation of time cam is visible in the top left, below the clocks face. The clock of the long now, also called the 10,000year clock, is a mechanical clock under. The 10,000 year clock will have an 8foot face, 700pound gear wheel, 300pound steel pendulum, and a neverrepeating set of 3. When the clock is fully wound, it will chime at solar noon, a unique peal of ten bells each day for 10,000 years. At the stroke of midnight, the prototype 10,000 year clock bonged twice to usher in the new millennia, the year 2000, in front of a small crowd at its temporary home in the. Its of monumental scale inside a mountain in west texas. Use this chart to determine the dayofweek for any date in the years 1 to 0. Like other stephenson novels, the book is long and epic. Jeff bezos amazing 10,000year clock business insider.

Its this kind of longerterm thinking, assessing our impact on a future we cant even imagine yet, that inspired the inventors of the 10,000 year clock. This projects are intended to help shift humanitys concept of now to a much longer time frame. Amazon ceo jeff bezos says 10,000 year clock is under. The twoway a 500foottall clock is being constructed inside a mountain in west texas on property owned by amazon founder jeff bezos. The clock of the long now, also called the 10,000 year clock, is a mechanical clock under construction that is designed to keep time for 10,000 years. Work on a prototype 10,000year clock was completed in time for the millennial. In the long now foundation we refer to this year as 01998, and 01999, and 02000 and so on. Use updown scroll buttons to specify the 100 year span of the calendar, and then print. At press time, there is no precise date set for the clocks completion. A twometer prototype is on display at the science museum in london. Hillis expects to build many more and says his nonprofit, the long now, has already garnered funding for a second one, which will be housed inside.

This test version was finished just in time on new year s eve 1999. The book focuses on two nascent projects headed up by the author and the long now foundation the effort to build a 10,000 year clock and a 10,000 year library. As cofounder he shaped the original direction of the organization, found funders for. This clock will last for 0 years, and poses a question. Neal stephenson and the 10,000year clock blog of the long now. When i was a child, people always used to think about the year 2000. The 500foottall clock, buried inside a mountain in the sierra diablo range in west texas, has several seattle ties. The huge mechanical clock ticks once per year and chimes once per millennium. While a wristwatch ticks every second, the 10,000 year clock ticks once a minute source. Depending on the day, amazon founder jeff bezos is either the richest or. Danny hillis is an inventor, scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. At the stroke of midnight, the prototype 10,000year clock bonged twice to usher in the new millennia, the year 2000, in front of a small crowd at its temporary home in the.

So the clock is ready for the year 0 and carries on in a completely accurate timetelling fashion until the year 12000. Bezos, hillis, and the other people involved in the 10,000 year clock project are dedicated to our species collectively upping our game when it comes to understanding the wisdom and application of. Kind of like 10,000 year clocks and running up and down hallways with strangers on your back. Quick update and video of the raise bore milestone. The 10,000 year clock is 500 feet tall, powered by thermal cycles, and is synchronized at solar noon, according to a tweet from bezos on tuesday. In art, xenophon, on his retreat with the ten thousand, first seeing the sea, painting by benjamin haydon. Construction of the 10,000 year clock is ticking along. Eno designed the sequence, which will produce almost enough combinations for the 3.

But beyond adding another digit to our date, the clock would mean so much more. This giant clock will tick for 10,000 years, but youll. Why one organization is building a clock that will tick. Jeff bezos is building a 10,000 year clock in west texas. Danny had sent out a note about his idea for the 10,000year clock, and a lot of people wrote it off as being kind of crazy. Well, 4digit year dates also become a problem after the year 0 fivedigits in your year dates. Amazons jeff bezos is thinking 10,000 years in the future.

Jeff bezos shares video of 10,000year clock project. Published april 6th 2000 by basic books first published 1999. A myriad day is the ten thousand day anniversary of the birth of a person. Brain scan taking the long view technology quarterly.

The dials represent the year, century, sun solar position, moon lunar phase, horizons and star field. Long now orrery san francisco, california atlas obscura. The people and agendas behind the design and production of the fascinating 10,000 year clock are subjects for another discussion. For example, this article was published in the year 2009, but by hilliss new clock, it would be the year 02009. The 10,000 year clock would be designed to make a small bell peal every day, tick once per year, chime once every hundred years and release one hell of a cuckoo every one thousand years even as far back as 1993, when hillis was helming thinking machines corporation, he began to think about a project that involved some seriously longterm. The book focuses on two nascent projects headed up by the author and the long now foundation the effort to build a 10,000 year clock and a 10,000 year. Progress on the 10,000year clock, danny hillis friday, september 10, 7pm, fort mason conference center, san francisco.

It turns out bezos is not the only one who thinks the 10,000 year clock is a brilliant way to connect us with future generations. A serial binary adder converts the timing from the pendulum to one of six dials on the clocks face. His concept for a 10,000year clock was the founding idea for the long now foundation. Amazons jeff bezos just revealed video of a massive 10,000year clock thats being built inside a west texas mountain. This test version was finished just in time on new years eve 1999. A multimillennial mechanical monument, the long now foundations 10,000 year clock is a work existing at the intersection of art, science, and engineering, and is a thinkers window into. Building the 10,000 year clock prototype howstuffworks. The actual idea for the clock comes from danny hillis, who originally. A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock. It sounds like science fiction, but this is the real vision for the 10 000year clock, a monumentsize mechanical clock designed to measure time for 10 millennia. A 10,000year clock, a passion of amazon founder jeff bezos, is currently being constructed inside a west texas mountain range with the aim of encouraging people to think about the distant future, or long now, national public radio reported thursday the 500foottall clock was the idea of danny hillis, who designed the clock to run with little maintenance and interruption. Amazon ceo jeff bezos shared a video on tuesday of his latest project. As the director of long now, alexander has facilitated projects such as the 10,000 year clock with danny hillis, the rosetta project, long bets, seminars about long term thinking, long server and.