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10,000 year clock

10,000 Year Clock
Kevin Kelly, an amazing man and author of the incredible book, What Technology Wants, says about the project:


"Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If the Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish? The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk
once asked, “Are we being good ancestors?”


from laughing squid
thanks kaylee

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