11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
8:29 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jason McBrien wrote:
Well, thank goodness we won't be having them actually develop the spec
itself :) What I had in mind with them is to help to put into place a
perpetual system of regeneration so that the image library can be updated
as long as there are humans around to do so.
That's
where the Longnow Foundation may be able to play a rather
significant part in the development of this specification.
If it were up to them the spec would be encoded in integer-binary form on a
string of beryllium-cobalt-copper links, fed into a giant water-powered
mechanical difference engine tabulation computer to reproduce the works on
stainless steel discs in any number of base-n numbering systems :) Cool bunch of people. I saw them on Big Thinkers back
when TechTV was good.
Now it's time to write up my idea for the Long Now clock... Is it me or do
many of these look like the time controller machine in Tomb Raider (The
Movie)?
http://www.longnow.org/10kclock/clockother.htm
This is a really cool project that I follow (from time to time) with
great interest. I wish I could be more involved but I've already got a
million projects going on.
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