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Time Since Launch
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
The clock indicates the moment— but what does eternity indicate?
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 1)
Not only was this the time at which Dieter Lubs had calculated that the clock faces looked most attractive, the consistent positions of the fingers made the images more memorable, even to people who had glanced at them fleetingly.
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
How will time be measured? And how will they know?
The little man in my pocket
What if I got a grandfather clock? A ring every hour is a low-precision reminder of mine. It’s 60x less precise than a digital clock. It surprises you. It is sensorial instead of abstract.
What if I got an hour glass? It is a timer with a silent end. There is no nudge. Only when you break flow and wonder the time do you know if your interval has pas
... See moreKairos – Quality Time Helps Us Feel Human
Time is necessary for those fundamentally human aspects of life – love, connection, meaning, inspiration, awe, wonder. Things like creativity, art and intimacy cannot be done faster without paying a steep price. Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slowness , writes, “All the things that bind us together and... See more
Time is necessary for those fundamentally human aspects of life – love, connection, meaning, inspiration, awe, wonder. Things like creativity, art and intimacy cannot be done faster without paying a steep price. Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slowness , writes, “All the things that bind us together and... See more
phenomenology Archives - Slow Space
It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the kind of deliberate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life. It was the kind of sound that suggested very pointedly that in some hypotheti
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