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The 10,000-Year Clock: A Monument To Long-Term Thinking

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The 10,000-year clock is neither a ‘frightening’ ‘distraction,’ as its critics scorn, nor the ‘admirable objective’ its fans claim. It’s something else — a monument to long-term thinking that can unlock a deeper and more thoughtful spirit of interpretive patience.

Keeping Time Into The Great Beyond The 10,000-year clock is neither a ‘frightening’ ‘distraction,’ as its critics scorn, nor the ‘admirable objective’ its fans claim. It’s something else — a monument to long-term thinking that can unlock a deeper and more thoughtful spirit of interpretive patience. Timothée Boubay for Noema Magazine Credits Vincent Ialenti is a former U.S. Department of Energy official on the research faculty in Cal Poly Humboldt’s Department of Environmental Studies. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University and is the author of “Deep Time Reckoning” (MIT Press,

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