{"id":253,"date":"2007-04-26T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=253"},"modified":"2009-12-19T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:37:04","slug":"so-long-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"So Long Now ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longnow.org\/projects\/clock\/prototype1\/images\/general-digicam-ClockProto99nfLoRes.jpg\" alt=\"10,000 year clock\"\/><\/div>\n<p>A few weeks ago I stumbled on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longnow.org\">Long Now Foundation&#8217;s<\/a> website. I find the site and projects absolutely compelling. I guess most people who got interested in technology as kids wanted to proactively shape the future, not just participate. In doing so we needed a target or goal and for many the year 2000 became that goal. It came to represent the future. People don&#8217;t talk about temporal technology goals at the moment. 2100 is too far away. It&#8217;s (possibly) outside the lifespan of today&#8217;s technologists. The Long Now foundation actively encourages people to participate in projects with implications and reach far beyond their own lifetime. One such example is Danny Hillis&#8217;s design for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longnow.org\/projects\/clock\/prototype1\/\">10,000 year clock<\/a>. Danny is better known as the creative force behind Thinking Machines Corporation &#8220;Connection Machine&#8221; and the inventor of massively parallel computer. I love the idea of a clock that will (very) slowly beat through 10,000 years of technological, social and biological change.  I&#8217;ll write more about this project over the next few days as it&#8217;s genuinely fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I stumbled on the Long Now Foundation&#8217;s website. I find the site and projects absolutely compelling. I guess most people who got interested in technology as kids wanted to proactively shape the future, not just participate. In doing so we needed a target or goal and for many the year 2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}