The Time Lords: Jeff Bezos, a 10,000-Year Clock, and Big Tech's Quest to Seize the Future

A story of Silicon Valley dreams and Texas treasure — and the dark underside of tech world idealism


For decades, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and a legendary group of San Francisco tech execs have been building a hidden world monument: a huge clock, sheltered inside a Texas mountain, designed to tick for 10,000 years.
At the turn of the millennium, a group of tech luminaries — supercomputer designer Danny Hillis, counterculture icon Stewart Brand and eventually Bezos himself — dreamed of creatin...