It was with no small excitement that I read, in a recent issue of Wired, an article
about Neal Stephenson’s new novel Anathem, which is in stores today. And though the details about the novel were tantalizing enough, my imagination soon caught fire from something else—and I felt perhaps something like the dizzying opening of the mind that Neal Stephenson himself might have felt when he first heard about about the Clock of the Long Now.
The Clock of the Long Now is just that—a clock. But it inspired Neal to write Anathem. This is, in a strange way, exactly what this clock—which will take sixty years and tens of millions of dollars to construct—was designed to do.
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