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What is the purpose of this project? Is it just art? I can not help but think how much good could have been done with the money.
by dandare 9y ago
What is the purpose of this project? Is it just art? I can not help but think how much good could have been done with the money.
- imglorp 9y agoI feel it's more. We have so many short term ideas: chasing quarterly profits, carrying a national debt, passing climate decline to our kids, designing garbage appliances and vehicles that fail right after warranty, and on and on. This is showing us where the other side of the road is with long term thinking. How do you keep an institution running--physically and socially--for 10 ky? How do you even communicate with people 10 ky from now? We can't even read half the stuff written in stone 2 ky ago about big things like kings and wars; forget about writing a detailed maintenance manual, or describing tools or materials they'll need in a language probably dead for thousands of years. Will they even want to? So by having examples of both kinds of organizations, the middle of the road is more moderate, moved away from disposable, self serving, instant gratification and more towards sustainable and altrustic.
- iwsfutcmd 9y agoI had similar misgivings until I saw a presentation on the clock by the designers. It's, in a way, a bit like the space race - we've as a species have never attempted to intentionally build something that would last 10,000 years, and in the process of building this clock we'll learn a lot about how to think in that kind of timeframe and how to build things that last.