Contraptions

Contraptions

Indoors in Time

Chapter 2 of the Clockless Clock

Venkatesh Rao
Jun 27, 2020
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Part of the The Clockless Clock book project.

In Chapter 1, we saw how our present can be understood as a liminal passage between the Industrial Age and the Information Age. The central thesis of this book is that the transition between the two ages is primarily about an altered experience of time, and only secondarily about information per se.

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