Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, was once again involved in a gigantic project. This time Bezos involves himself in the construction of a giant mechanical clock that will keep ringing for up to 10,000 years.
The giant clock built by Bezos is unique. The clock in it does not move with the count of seconds, minutes, or hours.
The new needle will move once every year to change. Another needle shifted as a decade passed. Finally, there are alarm sounds coming out every 1,000 years passed.
See also: Amazon Layoffs Hundreds of Employees
"His vision is to build a clock that continues to move up to 10,000 years into the future," said Bezos in his blog as quoted from Digital Trends, Tuesday (20/2).
Indeed this giant clock project originated from the idea of Danny Hillis. The concept about it has been Hillis since 1989.
Currently the clock-making process is still running. A mountain in West Texas became an option to create the millennium clock. It will be placed at a height of 500 meters.
The construction team uses geothermal energy as a source of energy. In a video released by Bezos via his Twitter account, a group of workers busy moving and installing a clock machine inside a drilled mountain.
See also: First Time Amazon Shares Outperform Microsoft
Bezos said that the clock brings the message of 'long-term thinking'. The bald headed man was known to have been involved in the project since about six years ago. His involvement in this big project is nothing but a donor.
As of this writing, Bezos has a net worth of US $ 121.3 billion. His fortune has surpassed Bill Gates, thus placing Bezos as the richest man on Earth. For this project, Bezos poured money worth US $ 42 million.
Currently the watchmaking is not finished yet. But when all is completed, this giant clock will be a tourism milestone in the region.
