As you may already have discovered, it’s part of the Long Now, which is making the 10,000 Year Clock[0] (about which a friend of mine wrote a play[1], and which helped inspire Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel “Anathem”). It involves a bunch of the smartest futurists around, including Stewart Brand (famous for the “Whole Earth Catalog”), Danny Hillis (the Connection Machine), and Brian Eno (producing Talking Heads and U2).

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now

1. http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/You-don-t-have-to-be-a-s...