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Danny Hillis explains what motivated him to build a linear Clock
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“You had a set of folks running these machines who were the priesthood of hardware, and the rest of us were railing against it,” says Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. “We wanted a playground where we could go to freely try things out.”
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Dan Wolf, one of the people with whom Hillis worked at Disney, commented, “A traditional clock depicts time in the context of our lives. This Clock depicts our lives in the context of time.” The jump is from prime time to primal time.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
The scientists could move from one project to another, which meant, member Chuck Thacker recalled, the best projects attracted the best people and “as a result, quality work flourished, less interesting work tended to wither.”
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Together with Danny Hillis, Brand chairs the board of the Long Now Foundation, an organization devoted to returning us to thinking in generational timescales.
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Three technological revolutions dawned in 1953: thermonuclear weapons, stored-program computers, and the elucidation of how life stores its own instructions as strings of DNA.