Wed May 4, 02016, 11:00PM UTC
Danny Hillis
The Long Now and the 10,000-year Clock
A Long Now Boston Conversation with Danny Hillis, inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and writer, and the designer of the Clock of the Long Now.
Event Summary
The first Long Now Boston Conversation was held on May 4, 02016, and featured Danny Hillis, member of the Long Now Foundation Board and friend of Long Now Boston.
Danny talked about The Long Now Foundation and details of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now, “a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock created as an icon to long term thinking.”
For more information, check out The Clock of the Long Now at the Long Now Foundation and this 2021 article from Interesting Engineering on the progress on Building the 10,000 Year Clock.
Photo Image: Prototype Clock of the Long Now, By Rolfe Horn, courtesy of the Long Now Foundation