TECHNOLOGY AND TIME [circa May, 2001]

The internet and other new technologies of the past several decades, have only accelerated our vision of the present as global/universal simultaneity. Our conception of the past is loosening its cables whereas the future reigns over the past, and the present over the future. The lines between present and future are confused. Ten times a day on television they tell us the news we'll hear about at the next hour. This concept of getting news hours from now is frightening. It means to our conception of past, present, and future, that we are willing to wait days after something has happened to hear about it, and yet the news is still in the future somehow, because it's playing at 11PM, which hasn't arrived yet. It means that our concept of time is changing, or has already changed. Not only do we have super-simultaneity [brought by globalization], but we have traces of the future in the present, traces of the past in the future, traces of anti-time in the present; thus time has cracked, has split into various shards. We can say that we helped crack the crystal ball of time, and that we are suffering from it in the pure terror at not knowing what time it is.
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