“When Donatello and Michelangelo sculpted David, they transmuted his rock-throwing dynamism to monumental potential. Bernini’s David actually swings the sling, his face all screwed up in concentration like yours or mine would be, with every little muscle picked out and straining. One tends to think there is a dimension missing, when in fact there is an extra dimension present: natural humanity.”
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Do Humans Have A Biological Stopwatch? Maybe More Than One
“That might explain why we perceive time as moving forward, but it fails to account for why we often perceive time moving at varying speeds. Why does it speed up when we’re having fun, but slow down when we’re bored? Most of us are fairly good at measuring short time intervals – seconds, minutes – but neuroscientists aren’t sure how we do it.”
Why Time is a Social Construct
“We measure time not simply in terms of minutes and seconds, but in terms of concepts such as ‘early’, ‘late’ – or, for that matter, ‘fashionably late.’ What is the length of a ‘work day’? In the United States, Europe and Japan you’ll get three different answers.”
Do We Really Understand How Revolutionary The Internet Is?
“As the network of networks–the “inter-network”–the Internet is a revolution of revolutions.”
Why Did Jaron Lanier Turn Against The Web?
The sometime Internet guru now campaigns against “the ideology he helped create, Web 2.0 futurism, digital utopianism, which he now calls ‘digital Maoism,’ indicting ‘internet intellectuals,’ accusing giants like Facebook and Google of being ‘spy agencies’.”