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The Clock of the Long Now

In Texas under the Sierra Diablo mountain range their lives one of the most audacious engineering achievements ever conceived - the Clock of the Long Now.

Designed by Danny Hillis this unique timepiece will run for 10,000 years with little or no maintenance and is hoped to symbolise long-term thinking on a scale that no one can deny.

A few things that, due to its ambition, make it extraordinary aside from just phenomenally accurate timekeeping:

• Unable to rely on any power source on earth for that long, the clock harvests energy from the sun.
• Despite being made from the highest feasible grade of Titanium they have to factor in wear and tear into the mechanisms because even titanium will wear out over that time period.
• In order to symbolise progression rather than just repetition, the clocks chime will be different every day for 10000 years (and have been designed by Brain Eno)
• They are creating mechanical interfaces into the rooms which will activate at the 1, 100, 1000 and 10,000 year anniversaries.
• Contact within the clock is minimised by running as much as…