How to Build Something That Lasts 10,000 Years

Written for BBC Future sharing the lessons learned from studying long-lasting monuments and artifacts, and how those lessons informed Long Now’s approach to building the 10,000 Year Clock:

“Over the last two decades, I have been working at The Long Now Foundation to build a monument-scale ‘10,000 Year Clock’ as an icon to long-term thinking, with computer scientist Danny Hillis and a team of engineers. The idea is to create a provocation large enough in both scale and time that, when confronted by it, we have to engage our long-term future.”

You can read the article in full here.