Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash 169
heptapod writes "Wired has an in-depth article about the 10,000 Year Clock and The Long Now Foundation which has begun moving forward with Jeff Bezos's investment of $42 million. Recently he put up a website with more information." My favorite-yet article about the 10,000 Year Clock appeared on Kevin Kelly's site earlier this month. (Kelly always seems to be involved in interesting projects, and is one of the movers behind this one.)
Re:Cool idea, but... (Score:3, Informative)
We have CT machines and we still can't figure out exactly what the Antikythera device did.
Well, Wikipedia has a quite detailed description [wikipedia.org] for something which we don't have an idea of what it does. And that's for a device which is not complete, and no longer working.