![]() ![]() With memes, social media and the daily news cycle, A DAY is the new timescale. It was seen as immediate and fleeting – because worked on a timescale of seasons. I envy the people of 2000, for whom the fastest industry was fashion. It is very refreshing to read a book from the 2000’s describing this problem and using fashion, with its season-based cycle as the example of a pace that is way too fast. It’s all about here and now and the last 30 seconds. The flywheel of “fresh news” has been spinning so fast that nobody tends to look at decade-long projects anymore. “News” is often a TV interview about a tweet reacting to another tweet about an article. “News” could have been week-old important information worth getting.īut the Internet changed all that. The pace at which information disseminated was much slower. Winning is an event that we notice and base our behavior on, while the relentless losing, losing, losing is a nonevent, inspiring no particular behavior,” “The difference between fast news and slow nonnews is what makes gambling addictive. That is why the news is called “News” and not “Importants”. We have something called the recency bias – urgent, fresh information tends to outweigh the timeless and essential. ![]() What is up with this long term thinking you keep mentioning? ![]() It will also be a heck of an Indiana-Jones-esque artifact after 10 000 years. Such icons reframe the way people think.” “Ideally, it would do for thinking about time what the photographs of Earth from space have done for thinking about the environment. The clock is a symbol of the time scale, an endeavor focused on the long term. According to Bezos, the Amazon founder and richest man on the planet, the clock will be 500 feet tall, "all mechanical, powered by day/night thermal cycles," and "synchronized at solar noon.At our Grand Meetup we had a great chance to listen to executive director of gave us an update on the clock progress ( ), but I picked up this book from 2000 to learn about reasoningġ9 years ago is still in the long now □- Artur Piszek SeptemWhy the clock? Experts are blasting rooms out of the interior of the mountain in order to install steampunky piles of gears and flywheels. The clock is designed to tick just once a year and chime once per millennium. How does the clock work? Well, the longness of the time involved is the big engineering challenge. He’s exactly the kind of guy who decides he wants to build a huge eon clock in a mountain. Now, he’s a visiting professor at MIT Media Lab with a reputation for building supercomputers, autonomous dinosaur robots, and Disney theme park rides. It’s the brainchild of Danny Hillis, a computer scientist and entrepreneur who first imagined the 10,000-year clock in 1986. There are a lot of surprises in the story of the Clock of the Long Now. ![]() And despite an informal website with a whiff of Blogspot template, this is a Jeff Bezos project. Jeff Bezos and a millionaire scientist friend are building the clock on Bezos's property in Texas.Įngineers and contractors are building a massive, multi-room clock inside a mountain in West Texas-a clock that will tell time for the next 10,000 years.The huge mechanical clock ticks once per year and chimes once per millennium.The " Clock of the Long Now," which will tell time for the next 10,000 years, has cost $42 million to build so far. ![]()
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