Clocks, the steady sound deep with us | Opinion
, are building what they call The Clock of the Long Now, a 10,000-year clock. Bezos wrote that the installation is a 500-foot-tall mechanical clock powered by day/night thermal cycles, synchronized at solar noon.
Why such a clock? The Long Now Foundation, spearheading this project, wrote, “If a clock can keep going for 10 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?”
Maybe this clock being built in a mountain will remind us that the Earth swings back and forth in the giant pendulum of the universe, that the tides wind us up each day, that we need to live with gratitude that the ticking hearts inside our bodies and the bodies of our ancestors have been working effortless for millions of years.
I would love to be a hobbit and visit the inside of this Texas mountain to look at the giant gears. On the first page of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous book, he wrote, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
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