Kalyani Tupkary

In the 20th-century office, female file clerks were expected to handle papers — but not to understand their contents.

What do people need to understand? What are the edges of the map or diagram? What are you not mapping or diagramming? Where will other people see this map or diagram (e.g., on a wall, in a presentation, on paper)?

The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.

Time isn’t like the other senses, Eagleman says. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are relatively easy to isolate in the brain. They have discrete functions that rarely overlap: it’s hard to describe the taste of a sound, the color of a smell, or the scent of a feeling. … But a sense of time is threaded through everything we perceive. 

For all time’s inherent malleability, people want it to be consistent, and more importantly, they want it to be theirs.

The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.