I have a deep and abiding fascination with time (as I guess most of us temporally-ensnared humans do - what would the plastic surgery industry be without feeding such obsession) ..(or in fact the Getting Things Done cult.ure of time management..wish I could say I was an acolyte, but I’m yet to crack the nod of the gods who dole out effortless efficiency).
No doubt each choose our own experience of time.. which accounts for the fact that at different points time flies, crawls, or horror!! those who go on an active cull and kill time! there are even cultures who have reversed their concept of past and future. Stubbornly proving lifetime after lifetime that linear time has a good firm footing in our cultural and not merely biological encoding
One of my favourite sites for those not afraid of the big questions at the frontier is The Insitute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (serious mouthful, but soooo worth it, if you have the time… check this article on hacking time). With all this progressive complexity and accelerating change to wrap our heads around %-/ sometimes it’s best to keep it simple, the way Einstein explained it in his famous analogy of this wacky elastic experience of stretchybendy time we all get to feel:
“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”
