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World'S Most Advanced Clock!
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Oct 18, 2002 @ 4:10pm |
 Coolness: 686535 | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Fri Oct 18, 2002 @ 9:57pm |
 Coolness: 122385 | that's for sure not the most advanced clock in the world. it only goes to seconds. my watch has seconds and the date also. i'm not impressed. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Fri Oct 18, 2002 @ 10:14pm |
 Coolness: 300270 | well is there a chinese dude writing the number every fucking second?
I DONT THINK SO |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Fri Oct 18, 2002 @ 10:17pm |
| Coolness: 122385 | no but that would be funny- i think you should volunteer tipsy- plus it'll get you to stop drinking... and if you did anyway the numbers would start getting all crooked and you'd count backwards and they'd get all random ...1..5..9..1...92..64..
then they're fire you |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Oct 18, 2002 @ 11:44pm |
 Coolness: 340610 | you can tell he's chineese just from his hand?
wow. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PaT_ replied on Sat Oct 19, 2002 @ 2:41am |
 Coolness: 117240 | pretty cheap, he only wrote the 10 diferent numbers and they just reapet them... it wold have been better if they made him write the number 1 10 times to that it looks more different and less notciable.... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Agent_Yogurt replied on Sat Oct 19, 2002 @ 9:40am |
| Coolness: 134555 | i noticed that to |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ApR1zM replied on Sat Oct 19, 2002 @ 10:02am |
 Coolness: 165745 | you guys just can appreciate anything :P
i think its pretty leet ! shiat |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV replied on Thu May 19, 2005 @ 3:22am |
 Coolness: 194970 | bump., havent seen this befoere, and yah it is kinda leet |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» fishead replied on Thu May 19, 2005 @ 8:15am |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Thu May 19, 2005 @ 2:14pm |
 Coolness: 151405 | THE CLOCK AND LIBRARY PROJECTS
Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed-some mechanism or myth which encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where 'long-term' is measured at least in centuries. Long Now proposes both a mechanism and a myth. It began with an observation and idea by computer scientist Daniel Hillis: "When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of an ever-shortening future. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium." Such a clock, if sufficiently impressive and well engineered, would embody deep time for people. It should be charismatic to visit, interesting to think about, and famous enough to become iconic in the public discourse. Ideally, it would do for thinking about time what the photographs of Earth from space have done for thinking about the environment. Such icons reframe the way people think. Hillis, who developed the 'massive parallel' architecture of the current generation of supercomputers, devised the mechanical design of the Clock and is now building the second prototype (the first prototype is on display in London at the Science Museum). The Clock's works consist of a binary digital-mechanical system which is so accurate and revolutionary that we have patented several of its elements.(With 32 bits of accuracy it has precision equal to one day in 20,000 years, and it self-corrects by 'phase-locking' to the noon Sun.) For the way the eventual Clock is experienced (its size, structure, etc.), we expect to keep proliferating design ideas for a while. In 01999 Long Now purchased part of a mountain in eastern Nevada whose high white limestone cliffs may make an ideal site for the ultimate 10,000-year Clock. In the meantime Danny Hillis and Alexander Rose continue to experiment with ever-larger prototype Clocks-the current one may be 20 feet high. Long Now added a "Library" dimension with the realization of the need for content to go along with the long-term context provided by the Clock-a library of the deep future, for the deep future. In a sense every library is part of the 10,000-year Library, so Long Now is developing tools (such as the Rosetta Disk and the Long Server) that may provide inspiration and utility to the whole community of librarians and archivists. The Long Bets project-whose purpose is improving the quality of long-term thinking by making predictions accountable-is also Library-related. The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. -Stewart Brand Updated March of 02002 * The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» fishead replied on Thu May 19, 2005 @ 7:36pm |
| Coolness: 76615 | brilliant, ain't it?
do we really need to measure things in hundredths of a second? Or should be looking thousands of years forward and concentrating our efforts on making sure we get there? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef replied on Fri May 20, 2005 @ 12:49pm |
 Coolness: 155620 | |
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