Designing for Longevity: Lessons from the 10,000 Year Clock

For the last two decades Alexander Rose and a team of engineers have been building this icon of long-term thinking with The Long Now Foundation funded by Jeff Bezos. Construction of the 10,000 Year Clock project is currently underway in West Texas where they have used giant custom robots and explosives to excavate over 500 vertical feet through solid rock to house the Clock. He will discuss the building of the Clock as well as the research and design process that has reached from the arctic Seed Vault in Svalbard, nuclear waste repositories in Finland, and deep underground to the ultra-secret Mormon genealogical vaults.