I could see Steve Jobs being reflected upon as some sort of technological shaman...
Interesting parallel: The 10,000 Year Clock by The Long Now Foundation http://longnow.org/clock/
That is a real project that Brian Eno is part of (how I learned of it). Monumental Chiming Clock...
"The idea to build a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long-term thinking came from computer scientist Danny Hillis and was published in the form of an email to friends. Later it was followed up with an essay published in the 01995 Wired magazine "Scenarios" issue. Danny reasoned that by actually building a remote monument, the discussions around long-term thinking would be far more focused and it would lend itself to good storytelling and myth -- two key requirements of anything lasting a long time."
Interesting parallel: The 10,000 Year Clock by The Long Now Foundation
http://longnow.org/clock/
That is a real project that Brian Eno is part of (how I learned of it). Monumental Chiming Clock...
"The idea to build a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long-term thinking came from computer scientist Danny Hillis and was published in the form of an email to friends. Later it was followed up with an essay published in the 01995 Wired magazine "Scenarios" issue. Danny reasoned that by actually building a remote monument, the discussions around long-term thinking would be far more focused and it would lend itself to good storytelling and myth -- two key requirements of anything lasting a long time."