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- “On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.”
New York Times • How Analog Clocks Can Give Us More by Giving Us Less (Published 2020)
ather than create clocks that produce uniformity and ensnare us in regularity, why not create clocks that suit your pattern of being, whose minutes follow the length of your breath, or match your circadian rhythms?
Such a clock, if sufficiently impressive and well engineered, would embody deep time for people. It would be charismatic to visit, interesting to think about, and famous enough to become iconic in the public discourse. Ideally, it would do for thinking about time what the photographs of Earth from space have done for thinking about the environment.
... See moreStewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
"Long ago, before the Great Clock, time was measured by changes in heavenly bodies: the slow sweep of stars across the night sky, the arc of the sun and variation in light, the waxing and waning of the moon, tides, seasons. Time was measured also by heartbeats, the rhythms of drowsiness and sleep, the recurrence of hunger, the menstrual cycles of w... See more
The Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
Dan Wolf, one of the people with whom Hillis worked at Disney, commented, “A traditional clock depicts time in the context of our lives. This Clock depicts our lives in the context of time.” The jump is from prime time to primal time.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
How to Keep Time
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