The Clock of Long Now

I recieve Discover magazine and I read this article when the issue made it's debut. It [the clock] is amazing. The concept and prototype(on the right) is 9 feet tall, but the final version will be at least 60 feet tall with 5 different displays of time. Hillis said that if he made the clock a thousand years from now you could still read the time, even if you did not have the same system we use now. This thing keeps track of time, as well as the orbits of our 6 innermost planets, and the slow wobbles of Earth. The theory of the 10,000 year clock has been around for a while. Their main concern is when the designer, Danny Hillis, is dead. There will need to be a care taker to it is not to be destroyed of stolen when it actually gains some historical importance. I guess that is still has like a decade or two to be completely finished. This thing will be huge, in size and as a part of the earths history. 10,000 years is a long, long, long, long time,

" The time span from the invention of agriculture to present. Twice as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza stood. Four hundred human generations."