To anyone not part of the project, the clock seemed to have become one of those ideas that are good to think about, but impractical in reality. Although the Long Now Foundation continued working on prototypes, materials testing, design and other projects, media attention faded after the turn of the millennium. They even purchased a remote site, in Nevada, which met their geographic, geological and meteorological needs.īut then progress seemed to stop - at least from the outside. This, from 2011.Īt first, Hillis and Rose and other members of the foundation figured the organization’s primary job would be building the clock. It’s taken a long time to get to this point though, appropriately enough. This is the first of many stages to be installed, and we continue to fabricate parts for the rest of the Clock in several shops along the west coast. In this video you can see the first elements to be assembled underground, the drive weight, winder and main gearing. We’re all excited.Ĭlock of the Long Now – Installation Begins (Vimeo)Īfter over a decade of design and fabrication, we have begun installing the first parts of the Clock of the Long Now on site in West Texas. A number of parts are still being fabricated as of this date, but now the 10,000 year clock is getting closer and closer to keeping time for a long time. Inventor Danny Hillis, who came up with the idea of the clock, proposed for it to be “an icon to long-term thinking”. The clock is designed to run for ten millennia without any required human intervention to keep it going. The Long Now Foundation begins the installation of the monumental 10,000 year clock in West Texas
I’ve been a fan of it since first reading about it in Wired all those years ago, and have been spurred on to re-read the book again. I’m so pleased to see this is making great progress.
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