Connectivity, Balance, and Speed

Mehmet Cangul

Chapter Chapter 5 in Toward a Future Beyond Employment, 2014, pp 157-171 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The book began with a discussion of time. Specifically, how its passage escapes human consciousness, and how technological evolution is facilitating this absence of mind. However, if one brings to the fore the ecological context in which human time passes, there emerges an inevitable connection to a wider framework that encapsulates the rate at which things change. After all, notwithstanding the theory of relativity, this is the most concrete understanding of time one can ever attain in the specific moment in which existence flickers from one instance to the next, a process of change from one state to the next that takes place at various speeds across the span of nature. Therefore one can hypothesize that time itself is subject to a faster passage in the world of hyperconnectivity, one that imbues the feeling of a much faster rate of change not just in the immediate activity of engagement, but a much broader and general sense of increasing speed, an alteration of time.

Keywords: Human Life; Natural Disaster; Advanced Economy; Secondary Information; Natural Balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137347428_5

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