Alexander Rose on The Clock of the Long Now

Clock of the Long Now

One of the chimes in the Clock of the Long Now, being installed in a mountain in East Texas. Long Now Foundation

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Alexander Rose tells Anne Strainchamps about the Clock of the Long Now — an all mechanical clock being constructed in the high desert of Western Texas designed to run for ten thousand years. We hear the chime, designed by Brian Eno and Danny Hillis, for the 5,000th year.