Thursday, June 23, 2011

Steve Bezos wants to make a clock to last 10,000 years

Amazon founder Steve Bezos wants to build a clock to last as long as the pyramids.
Over the lifetime of this clock, the United States won’t exist,” Bezos tells me. “Whole civilizations will rise and fall. New systems of government will be invented. You can’t imagine the world — no one can — that we’re trying to get this clock to pass through.”
Article link here. Project website here.
 

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