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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Clock of the Long Now
		The Long Now Foundation has purchased a mountaintop near Ely, Nevada, surrounded by the Great Basin National Park, for the permanent storage of the full sized clock, once it is constructed.
		Musician Brian Eno gave the Clock of the Long Now its name (and coined the term "Long Now"); he has collaborated with Hillis on the writing the music for the chimes for a future prototype, a CD of which is currently being sold.
		Musician Brian Eno gave the Clock of the Long Now its name (and coined the term "Long Now); he is currently collaborating with Hillis on the writing the music for the chimes for a future prototype.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Clock-of-the-Long-Now (3134 words)

	Clock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word 'clock' (from the Latin word for "bell") which gradually supersedes 'horologe' also suggests that it was the sound of bells which characterized the prototype mechanical clocks that appeared during the 13th century.
		Spring-driven clocks have survived from the 15th century, and this gave the clockmakers many new problems to solve, such as how to compensate for the changing power supplied as the spring unwound.
		The 10 hour clock was briefly popular during the French Revolution, when the metric system was applied to time measurement, and an Italian 6 hour clock was developed in the 18th century, presumably to save power (a clock or watch chiming 24 times uses more power).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clock (3012 words)

	Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is going to be a kind of gigantic mechanical computer, slow, simple and ingenious, marking the hour, the day, the year, the century, the millennium, and the precession of the equinoxes, with a huge orrery to keep track of the immense ticking of the six naked-eye planets on their great orbital mainspring.
		The Clock of the Long Now is being designed to thrive under regular human maintenance along the whole of that long span, though during periods when no one is around to tune it, the giant clock will contrive to adjust itself.
		The point of the Clock of the Long Now is not to measure out the passage, into their unknown future, of the race of creatures that built it.
	www.michaelchabon.com /column/archives/2006/01/the_omega_glory.html (1531 words)

	Time Machine - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Time Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Prototype number two of the Clock of the Long Now is, at nine feet tall, a diminutive model of the final version, which is expected to be at least 60 feet tall and will have multiple displays.
		The clock idea originally sprang from Hillis's observation that in the 1980s, all long-range planning seemed to smack into a wall called the year 2000—the nice, round number seemed to be the omega point for everyone from software programmers to international policymakers: "Nobody could even think about the year 2030.
		The nine-foot-tall London clock uses a slowly rotating torsional pendulum, ticks once every 30 seconds, and tracks hours, sidereal and solar years, centuries, phases of the moon, and the zodiac—and happens to be hauntingly beautiful.
	www.discover.com /issues/nov-05/cover (3544 words)

	Clock
		For example, a clock will provide the ratio of the duration of one day to the duration of a different day (for example, the earth is spinning slower today than it did a billion years ago.
		A clock can be a physical instrument (an especially accurate one is called a chronometer) or refer to an abstract system of time measurement (see calendar).
		The circuits using the clock signal for synchronization may become active at either the rising or falling edge of the clock signal.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.com /definition/english/cl/clock.html (3501 words)

	The Long Now Foundation
		The Long Now Foundation is proud to announce the opening of our new public space and offices in Fort Mason Center.
		We will have prototypes of the 10,000 Year Clock Project, and Rosetta Project on display, as well as a retail space with items of Long Now interest available to the public starting Friday, June 2nd.
		Long Now is also looking for a new Community Development Manager.
	www.longnow.org (247 words)

	THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW - A Talk by Stewart Brand
		When Danny Hillis first started talking about his 10,000 year clock, many of his friends worried that he was going through some kind of mid-life crisis.
		A group of Danny's friends, led by Stewart Brand, got together and created "The Long Now Foundation" (http://www.longnow.org/) to build the clock, and also to begin to address the bigger issue involved: how to get people to think in a longer term, how to stretch out their sense of time.
		STEWART BRAND (http://www.well.com/user/sbb/) is a founding member and a director of Global Business Network (http://www.gbn.org/) and president of The Long Now Foundation (http://www.longnow.org/).
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/brand (394 words)

	THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW - A Talk by Stewart Brand [page 2]
		In the Long Now Foundation we refer to this year as 01998, and 01999, and 02000 and so on.
		So the clock is ready for the year 10000 and carries on in a completely accurate time-telling fashion until the year 12000.
		So in a sense it's a computer calculator clock, but there's no electricity in it; there's nothing electronic about it; it could be done with Bronze Age technology, or repaired with Bronze Age technology, it's a very intelligent binary digital physical mechanical device.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/brand/brand_p2.html (819 words)

	6.05: features
		Two thousand years from now, if the clock is still standing, it's less likely to make millennium partyers think about the year 6000 than about what life was like in 2000, and wonder why in the world someone way back then would build such a thing.
		The Long Now Foundation board of directors is having a difficult time making some very crucial decisions, such as where to put the clock.
		By now you've spent enough time inside that you're going to feel the need to use the toilet, and you figure you better find it, because you're not sure you can hold it for the next 10,000-year chamber.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/6.05/hillis_pr.html (9180 words)

	Clock of the Long Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A problem with using a conventional gear train (which has been the standard mechanism for the past millennium) is that gears necessarily require a ratio relationship between the timing source and the display.
		The Long Now Foundation has purchased a mountaintop near Ely, Nevada, surrounded by the Great Basin National Park, for the permament storage of the full sized clock, once it is constructed.
		Atomic clock software which can speak the time, synchronize the PC clock, and enhance the graphics of the taskbar clock.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Clock_of_the_Long_Now (2938 words)

	Community and Society Archive: The Clock of the Long Now
		His newest project is the Clock of the Long Now, and is devoted to extending time horizons in a period of speed and short-term memory.
		The clock is meant to function the way the picture of the earth from space functioned to raise environmental consciousness by making the notion of living on a limited and shared planet Earth graphic and real.
		Brand's clock offers a challenge to Jews, to think about how and whether our tradition offers resources for mustering the collective will for taking the long view of the future, in a world that is desperately in need of long term thinking.
	www.clal.org /csa15.html (1017 words)

	Clock of the Long Now
		Is a world time clock, an atomic clock synchronizer, a stopwatch, and a countdown timer.
		Clock repair tips, tricks, and secrets from a certified clockmaker, shows you how to repair your own grandfather, cuckoo, mantel or wall clock.
		Employees "clock in" and "clock out" on a single central Kiosk computer or directly from their own workstation keyboards.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=10000-Year_Clock (2938 words)

	The Clock of the Long Now : time and responsibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Suck that thought for a moment as we lend our voice to the clamour of praise for The Clock of the Long Now : the best book on ethics and epistemology, on computing and clocks, on planning and profits we have read this year.
		Setting out to discuss the difficulties involved in the construction of a giant mechanical clock that measures our aeons rather than our hours, this becomes a dazzling piece of scholarship on how our society is being transformed by its reactions to technological innovation.
		"Now that we have progress so rapid that it can be observed from year to year", says The Clock, "no-one calls it progress…Technology is treated as something that pushes us around rather than something we create.
	www.modelreasoning.com /review2.html (773 words)

	CD Baby: BRIAN ENO: January 07003 / Bell Studies for The Clock of The Long Now
		This is an idea to create a working clock which will mark time for ten thousand years - not really because we need more clocks in the world, but because we need more encouragement to start contemplating the possibility of a distant human future.
		The first prototype of the Clock is working and on permanent display at the Science Museum in London.
		Created from the mental conception of a clock that will mark time for ten thousand years, realized through the use of bells- bells that one might experience even thousands of years from now- this album certainly does change the flow of personal time and dialates the present moment with its wave-like ebb and flow.
	cdbaby.com /cd/brianeno (562 words)

	The Reality Club: The Clock of the Long Now
		It wasn't until Stewart described the Clock project to me that I understood what the last thirty or so years of his work was about.
		If you are interested in setting up a 10,000 year clock, the changes are going to be very significant indeed, and not predictable due to various things (lunar and planetary perturbations, for example).
		In fact our fundamental unit of time is the second, which is now defined using atomic clocks, and referred to the day length at the start of the year 1900.
	www.edge.org /discourse/brand_clock.html (1412 words)

	Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was out of the same deep, dubious paternal impulse that, for a long time, I used to look askance at the fabulous variety to be found in a box of Lego bricks.
		Legos were sold in kits that enabled one to put together, at fine scales, in detail made possible by a wild array of odd-shaped pieces, precise replicas of Ferrari Formula 1 racers, pirate galleons, jet airplanes.
		But more than the inherent difficult, which after all is an important aspect of puzzle-solving, or the shift in focus from exploration to reproduction, I resented the authoritarian nature of the new Lego.
	www.michaelchabon.com /column (1659 words)

	Music Review: Brian Eno - January 07003 - Bell Studies for The Clock Of The Long Now
		Not because the world needs more clocks, but to help people concentrate on how much time we actually have to live and think.
		Yes, the clock is real, and when it was designed, they realized it would need something to chime in the millennia.
		Now, if you do have an interest in music theory and ambience, I imagine you’ll find this CD fantastic and mesmerizing, as I did.
	teenink.com /Past/2005/June/19217.html (389 words)

	GBN: The Clock of the Long Now
		THE IDEA OF "THE LONG NOW," which comes from GBN member Brian Eno, is the idea of "the long view" plus inhabitation and responsibility.
		Some sort of balancing corrective to this short-sightedness is needed—some mechanism or myth that encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where "the long term" is measured at least in centuries.
		For a start, this December the prototype Clock, eight feet high, will introduce the year 2000 with a "bong, bong." If you want to hear it strike three times you have to wait a thousand years.
	www.gbn.com /BookClubSelectionDisplayServlet.srv?si=43 (942 words)

	EXTROPY Journal of Transhumanist Solutions: January 2001: The Clock of the Long Now and Other Artifacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The last effect has not been observed in living memory, and the next occurrence is projected to be nearly eighty generations removed from those now living.
		Xenoarchaeologists say that the gong's period was longer than the lifespan of an individual of that species, and that the unseen mechanism has a period longer than that species' entire recorded history.
		But while arguments rage in the halls of philosophy, while children are born and great-grandparents die, while intelligent races evolve and vanish, the Eternal Clock continues to tick.
	spock.extropy.org /ideas/journal/previous/2001/01-01.html (733 words)

	Slow Forward
		As the clock counts down to the turn of the millennium, it's easy to obsess about time.
		Today, Brand and a few future-thinking buddies are trying to build the world's largest and slowest mechanical clock, which they hope will loom in the American desert for the next 10,000 years as a testament to the continuity of time.
		But even if the clock is never built, Brand proves that simply raising the idea can be a potent tool for thinking differently about time.
	netscape.businessweek.com /1999/99_35/b3644074.htm (483 words)

	Boing Boing: Long Now clock souvenir
		Danny Hillis, Stewart Brand, and other members of the Long Now Foundation are designing a 65-foot-high mechanical clock designed to keep time for 10,000 years.
		(Previous Long Now posts here and here.) Now, the Levenger company is selling a souvenir 5.75-inch-high bronze replica of the clock's time cam.
		The 5¾-inch-high bronze replica of the clock's time cam that Levenger has created is a way for people to literally get their hands around the concept—to hold 10,000 years of time in their hand.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/12/06/long_now_clock_souve.html (240 words)

	clock.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Now, if everyone would simply write software that was compliant with its standards...
		In the Internet of today, most of the traffic goes "in the clear" - anyone who can tap the wires, lawfully or not, can see all.
		A hearty "Congratulations!" to the Citizen's Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC) who were the plaintiffs in "American Civil Libterties Union (ACLU) versus Janet Reno (United States Attorney General)" for their pivotal part in the victory for liberty, but one must never forget that, "Eternal Vigilance is the price of Freedom."
	www.clock.org (522 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It would be big enough to walk around in, and it would display the year, positions of the sun and moon, generations and millennia.
		Now, three years late but better late than never, on the recommendation of a very dear person I have read this book in detail and I find it to be one of the most extraordinary books--easily in the top ten of the 300+ books I have reviewed on Amazon.
		This book is in the best traditions of our native American forebears (as well as other cultures with a long view), always promoting a feedback-decision loop that carefully considered the impact on the "seventh generation." That's 235 years or so, or more.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0465007805 (1086 words)

	Amazon.com: The Clock of the Long Now: Books: Stewart Brand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Clock of the Long Now is both fascinating and, yes, maybe just a bit revolutionary and is most likely to find a suitable home in academic and larger public libraries with readers who are fervent in the desire to see us go on.
		And with this shift in the concept of now, it is hoped that a new concept of responsibility for our individual and group behavior will emerge.
		Well it now seems to me that ten- thousand years is such a long time from our now, and such an arbitrary time that there is not really much to be gained by counting time, or putting away information specifically in relation to it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046504512X?v=glance (2850 words)

	Long Now - a 10,000 years clock
		A very interesting idea to create a 10,000 year clock.
		To build the clock, a mountain in Nevada was brought and the clock to be built into the cliff face.
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	digg.com /science/Long_Now_-_a_10,000_years_clock (75 words)

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