This thing has fascinated me since I was a teenager, when my father had
a subscription to the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists"
rel="tag">Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists. I read it every
time. They are the ones who keep the famous
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock">Doomsday
Clock.
Now, we hear that
href="http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/scientists-to-move-doomsday-clock/20070114093009990001">the
Clock is being changed:
Also the website
for the Bulletin is being changed.
Right
now, this is the only thing there:
I must say, I am curious to see what they have to say. I'm
sure the announcement will be about the moving of the clock, closer to midnight. But what I
am curious about is their reasoning. The people who write the
Bulletin tend to be very well-informed, and insightful. My
impression is that their involvement in politics is driven by their
interest in science and in humanity. This I find refreshing,
even if the subject matter is dreadful.
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I wonder if they're going to make the state of the clock available as something that can be trivially queried by a machine? I suspect you'd see lots of user interface widgets turn up that surface them on web pages and status bars...
We'll see soon. But the clock changes only rarely; much less often than, say, the homeland security level. When they change it, it is the result of a serious analysis of world events.