The 10,000 Year Clock | Alexander Rose | Talks at Google
199Alexander Rose is Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, an organization founded in 1996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10 millenia. He has been working on the 10,000 Year Clock for over 2 decades.
Currently under construction inside a mountain in western Texas, the clock will be hundreds of feet tall and open to public viewing. The project is designed to suggest generational-scale questions: if a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If the Clock endures after we are long gone, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish? Perhaps most importantly, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, “Are we being good ancestors?”
Moderated by Alex Sayde.