Jeff Bezos

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:52:39 -0400

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is involved in what may be the most ridiculously ambitious project on this list: the Clock of the Long Now. The plan is to build a giant clock that can run for 10,000 years in a remote location. No big thing. The idea was originally proposed by someone else, but Mr. Bezos is funding the project and it's being built on property that he owns.

He told Wired:

“Over the lifetime of this clock, the United States won’t exist,” Bezos tells me. “Whole civilizations will rise and fall. New systems of government will be invented. You can’t imagine the world — no one can — that we’re trying to get this clock to pass through.”

Perhaps he could talk Mr. Thiel into keeping an eye on things. (photo via flickr.com/AustinBrown)

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