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Foundation Builds 10,000 Year Clock To Encourage Long-Term Thinking
ResumeWhat if every time you wrote a check or signed a form you wrote the date in five digits (02011) instead of four (2011)? The Long Now Foundation encourages people to do just that, in order to solve the so-called "deca millenium bug," not to be confused with Y2K problem-- the deca bug will occur in 8,000 years.
This is just one of Long Now's unusual initiatives to promote long-term thinking: the foundation is also building a 10,000 year clock under the Texas desert and is part of a project to preserve the world's languages. We speak to executive director, Alexander Rose, about the foundation and its unusual philosophy on time.
This segment aired on May 12, 2011.