#+TITLE: Time #+ROAM_ALIAS:

• tags:: productivity, individualism

• Personalised time as a driver of individualism and productivity 10 September 2020

“The “personalization” of precisely measured time “was a major stimulus to the individualism that was an ever more salient aspect of Western civilization”

Time used to be unhurried and flowing - the passing seasons, the tide, the sun and moon. Monks and communities moved toward clocks in town halls and bells in church towers. Time was then a communal, shared thing. The pocket watch and latterly the wristwatch (smart or otherwise) was a driving force of individualism. We each have our own prod and reminder of time spent, lost and wasted. This stimulated desires for productivity and gave a definitive tool to measure it.

Notes From: Nicholas Carr. “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”. Apple Books.

• A quote about how the clock created the belief in an independent world. :PROPERTIES: :ID: 9b47be8d-bbc8-48a7-89e2-16323da964d6 :END: 10 September 2020

“In Technics and Civilization, his 1934 meditation on the human consequences of technology, Lewis Mumford described how the clock “helped create the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences.” The”

Notes From: Nicholas Carr. “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”. Apple Books.