Stewart Brand

But by and large,

Anybody, anywhere has access to almost anything they need to know.

Isn't that astonishing?

Well, yeah, so you're an example of the kind of enabling that is coming from all this.

Yeah, and so, hmm.

Danny Hillis is a computer designer and computer scientist who I got to know when I was at the Media Lab at MIT back in the 80s.

And he was noticing as we got into the 1990s that people talk about the future as the year 2000.

And he said, they've been talking about the future as the year 2000 my whole life.

And it's been getting shorter by one year per year.

What can I do to pop people through these membranes of when we think the future is?

And Danny's the guy who invents things and builds things.

He builds a computer out of fishing line and tic-tac-toe.

Anyway, out of wood pieces at the computer museum.

This was a machine that could beat you with tic-tac-toe.

that took that show with string and wood.

So he wanted to build a physical thing of the scale of Stonehenge that would be a mechanical device that would keep accurate time for 10,000 years.

So it's not such a thing that lasts 10,000 years.

It doesn't stop ticking for 10,000 years.

And all that time is telling accurate time.

So it's been built.