A 'playboy' or a 'visionary'?

Tỷ phú vung hơn 1.000 tỷ đồng xây cỗ máy hoạt động 10.000 năm trong khe núi: Là kẻ ‘chơi ngông’ hay người ‘nhìn xa trông rộng’? - Ảnh 1.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, is teaming up with computer scientist Danny Hillis to build a clock that can defy time, up to 10,000 years to be exact.

Danny Hillis’s idea back in the 1980s, brought to life by the Long Now Foundation, is a reminder of the importance of long-term thinking. Hillis envisions a clock that ticks once a year, with the century hand moving every 100 years and a cuckoo appearing every millennium.

This clock is more than just a giant machine. It represents the idea of time and encourages people to imagine possibilities beyond the boundaries of their lives.

Tỷ phú vung hơn 1.000 tỷ đồng xây cỗ máy hoạt động 10.000 năm trong khe núi: Là kẻ ‘chơi ngông’ hay người ‘nhìn xa trông rộng’? - Ảnh 2.

Billionaire Bezos has donated $42 million to the machine. According to the co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, the clock is thought-provoking and changes people's perception of time, in the same way that photos of Earth from space change people's perception of the surrounding landscape.

The 10,000-year-old clock is a dozen feet tall and set into a Texas mountain. Its dial is meticulously designed and the chimes were created by conductor Brian Eno. While the clock’s completion date is unknown, it has been under construction since 2018, with meticulous preparation work, including the excavation of a 500-foot-deep shaft years in advance.

Tỷ phú vung hơn 1.000 tỷ đồng xây cỗ máy hoạt động 10.000 năm trong khe núi: Là kẻ ‘chơi ngông’ hay người ‘nhìn xa trông rộng’? - Ảnh 3.

While the millennium clock is a technical marvel and ambitious, it has also received its fair share of criticism. Some have called it a billionaire's nonsense.

Ultimately, only time will tell whether this long-term thinking experiment is a beacon or a fool's errand.

By Wonderful Engineering

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