In a remote mountain in West Texas, Jeff Bezos is funding the construction of a $42 million mechanical clock designed to tick for 10,000 years. The project, known as the “Clock of the Long Now,” is meant to inspire long-term thinking and perspective on humanity’s future. Built hundreds of feet underground, the clock is engineered to operate through the rise and fall of civilizations, powered by temperature changes between day and night. It serves no commercial purpose—only to remind future gener