The better way to measure cosmic time
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The better way to measure cosmic time
The greed for speed embodied in the factory clock signalled the triumph of linear time. Now it was the artificial construct of minutes and seconds that mattered rather than the natural cycles of the moon or seasons. The long-term future began to fade away as the present loomed ever larger.
Roman Krznaric • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
Namely, everyone on earth would observe a “Cosmic Day” within one of twenty-four time zones starting in Greenwich, England, where the prime meridian had been established a few years earlier.
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much ... See more
Back to the Point — I’m Moving Towards Using Obsidian.
“The infoverse may be infinite, but our allotment of days is not.” We ought to be conscious of how far and how quickly we move through the internet. But without a physical way to observe our time spent online, we risk scrolling, skimming, and hyperlinking ourselves to oblivion.