Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
The sun makes days, seasons, and years, and the moon makes months, but people invented weeks. What makes a Tuesday a Tuesday, and why does it come, so remorselessly, every seven days? A week is mostly made up.
design fiction leaking into real life
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.
The filing cabinet encouraged the drive to break more and more of modern life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable, and manageable parts

Clock time is not what most people think it is. It was created, and it is frequently altered and adjusted to fit social and political purposes.