A story of Silicon Valley dreams and hubris—and the gap between so-called visionary thinking and its effects on our lives.The Time Lords tells the story of how Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and a secretive group of San Francisco tech founders have committed over two decades and $42 million building a monumental clock designed to tick for 10,000 years hidden in a Texas mountain.The Clock of the Long Now, as it is called, was conceived in the 1990s, a ti...

A story of Silicon Valley dreams and hubris—and the gap between so-called visionary thinking and its effects on our lives.The Time Lords tells the story of how Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and a secretive group of San Francisco tech founders have committed over two decades and $42 million building a monumental clock designed to tick for 10,000 years hidden in a Texas mountain.The Clock of the Long Now, as it is called, was conceived in the 1990s, a ti...