The Clock of the Long Now

In The Clock of the Long Now, Stewart Brand sets out to create a symbolic clock that will keep time for 10,000 years. In doing so, he lays bare the current state of thinking about time and explores humanity's past and future relationship to timekeeping. He tracks down every possible method of temporal recording: human memory, written language, measuring devices and calendars—from paper newspapers to mechanical cuckoo clocks. The book is both a record of how we measure and think about our world, and an inspiring look at how we can change our mindsets in order to create new realities.