Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Philosophies of 'Cybertime'

The reading for today's class discusses 'cybertime' and all of its implications as an idea. "Cybertime is absolute time, and it is digital time...something more than digital clocks and watches." There are important negative aspects that are associated with this notion. The reading talks about how "a digital timepiece displays numbers in a vacuum--time unbound to either a circadian reference or the past and future." This lack of connection, referred to as the lack of "[this] circle," results in the elimination of a very important idea/understanding -- of time as being a cycle; the reading call this the loss of "...the notion that time is cyclical and related to the larger rhythms of the earth and solar system..." If our society is constantly losing connection to this seemed reality and truth of our ecological systems and celestial place; the question isn't 'What's the problem with this?'--but rather 'What isn't wrong with this?'
The reality of time, or at least an arguably much more healthy way it can be perceived, is that it's seamlessly flowing, "...Rather than hiccuping periodically." In contrast to this, 'cybertime' is based on a series of individual, separate "...and distinct electronic pulses; just as is the case with the microworld's absolute time...they are what passes for time in cyberspace."
In my opinion, 'cybertime' has some very disturbing implications and repercussions; especially in regards to the offsetting of our human circadian rhythms, as well as the generic distortion of the way we all interpret the entity that is time.

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