![]() ![]() Well, four-digit year dates also become a problem after the year 10000-five digits in your year dates. There's all this ruckus-correct ruckus-about the year 2000 problem in computers-that they can't handle four-digit year dates. Danny's clock is, I believe, the world's first year 10000-compliant computer. As of this year, 1998, we're building a prototype eight feet tall, probably about the size of two refrigerators back to back, and we've got an invitation to debut it at the World Economic Forum in Davos next January 1999-the perfect place to get world leaders and corporate leaders thinking in 10,000-year terms. STEWART BRAND: For three years we've been working on building a 10,000-year clock. He is the founder and original editor of The Whole Earth Catalog and author of The Media Lab How Buildings Learn, and Clock of the Long Now: Responsibility and Time, forthcoming in January from Basic (a MasterMinds Book). GBN explores global futures and business strategy for 61 multinational clients (mostly among the Global Fortune 1,000, and half in the top 100) including ABC/Cap Cities, Arco, AT&T, Andersen Consulting, Bell South, Leo Burdett, Fiat, IBM, Nissan, L'Oreal, Volvo, and Xerox. He is on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, and maintains connections with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired magazine and MIT's Media Lab, while occasionally consulting for Ecotrust.Ī substantial item on the Global Business Network site is a list of all the books he has recommended for the GBN "Book Club" since 1988 and several hundred of his reviews. STEWART BRAND is a founding member and a director of Global Business Network and president of The Long Now Foundation. ![]() is the least recognized, most influential thinker in America." No question about it. ![]() Call it reality.Ī couple of years ago he was featured on the cover of The Los Angeles Times Magazine: "Always two steps ahead of others. Stewart is the king of initially obscure, ultimately compelling conceptual art. In 1983 he urged me to get involved with something called "online conferencing." This led to "The WELL," (the Whole Earth "Lectronic Link"), a precursor of the radical changes that our use of the Internet is bringing to human communications. When I met him in 1965, he was sporting a button on which was printed: "America Needs Indians." His next conceptual piece was his 1968 campaign for a picture of "The Whole Earth," which led, in no small part, to the creation of the ecology movement. It's fitting that Stewart Brand got behind Danny's project. THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW HOW TOA group of Danny's friends, led by Stewart Brand, got together and created "The Long Now Foundation" 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. ![]() 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. Like understanding the earthly environment as one whole thing-we're trying to understand a period of time reaching 10,000 years into the past and 10,000 years into the future as one containable thought. In a sense, what we're doing with the clock is even more for time than what the photograph of the Earth did for space. ![]()
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