…❛❛ James Gleick’s meditation on Time covers how time is experienced psychologically, how artists such as #Borges, #Proust, and #Wells create with it, how #religions conjure #eternity, how #cosmology probes forking #universes, and how so much comes down to the #nature of “now.”
Science historian #Gleick is the author of #Chaos (1987), #IsaacNewton (2003), #TheInformation (2011), and "Time Travel: A History" (2016) ❜❜…
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeBiai2G_TI 15 Jan 2020
' “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote James #Gleick in his 1999 book Faster. Such compression characterized, as well, the preceding century. ”... information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. #speed with which we’re presented with new information and stimuli...our interactions with others.
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