Is There Anything Everyone Agrees On?

Filed under: Aesthetic Horology, Civilizational Impact, Cognitive Tools, International Agreement, Long-termism, Pace Layering, Shared Reality, Temporal Infrastructure, The Present Clock

Billions of people who disagree on nearly everything agree on what time it is. The Present asks: what if we extended that agreement to the year?

What Happens When the Year Is Visible

Filed under: Aesthetic Horology, Civilizational Impact, Cognitive Tools, Long-termism, Pace Layering, Temporal Infrastructure, The Present Clock, Visibility vs Information

This is what happens when you make the year physical. Not conceptual. Not something you read about and agree with. Something on the wall.

A 365.24-Day Long Film, On Loop

Filed under: Cognitive Tools, Martin Scorsese, Media Theory, Narrative Intervention, Temporal Framing, The Present Clock, Visibility vs Information, Yi Yi (Film)

Science fiction has reimagined everything. Gravity. Language. Memory. Government. The body. The speed of light. The nature of consciousness. The shape of cities. The definition of life. In five hundred years of speculative storytelling, almost no element of human experience...

A Compass for Time

Filed under: Circannual Rhythm, Cognitive Tools, Navigational Awareness, Systems Thinking, Temporal Orientation, The Missing Scale, The Present Clock, Time Perception

The compass doesn't tell you what to do. It tells you where you are. Everything else follows from that.

Time For Change

Filed under: Civilizational Consequence, Cognitive Tools, Systems Thinking, Technological Intervention, Temporal Infrastructure, The Overview Effect, The Present Clock

We are still living inside the last upgrade.

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Is There Anything Everyone Agrees On?

What Happens When the Year Is Visible

A 365.24-Day Long Film, On Loop

A Compass for Time

Time For Change