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lock that would last over to,000 years. The project led directly to the founding of the Long Now Foundation in 1996 by Hillis and others, including Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitch Kapor. Hillis asserts that parallelism itself is approximately the main ingredient of intelligence; that there

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