Som eit viktig symbol på tenkinga, er målet å laga verdas seinaste klokke/computer ("The ideas behind the slowest computer: The Clock of The Long Now"). The Long Now er både ein ide og ein manifestasjon gjennom eit urverk. Dataingeniør Daniel Hillis har formulert det slik:
"When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of an ever-shortening future. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium."(via Jon Udells blogg)
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