“In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.”

Think you can predict the future of computer hardware using Moore’s law? Or future successes in the development of artificial intelligence?

Put your money where your mouth is.

The people who brought you this fusion of futurology and reckless gambling are also hoping to build a clock that will tick for 10,000 years. They are called the Long Now Foundation and they say they were established in 01996. This five digit dating convention is an attempt ‘to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years’.

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