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Annihilation of Time and Space
February 3, 2018 | Leave a Comment
Technology does create new kinds of thinking. The meaning of time differs for different people in different cultures. Some cultures place an emphasis on using your time wisely i.e. maximizing your time so that it isn’t wasted. Other cultures believe time spent with loved ones should be more important than time spent at your job. Work will always be there. Some cultures place an emphasis on finding a balance between both those things. One must make time for the people in their life while also making sure that work gets done. In terms of technology being dislocating and changing thought, it is no longer important to find a balance anymore because I could be working while being on Facetime. By the same token, I could be working and have my earbud in and be on a phone call simultaneously. I feel like technology assisted in adjusting time. Since technology has created time zones, work can continue in other parts of the world where work has stopped in other parts. I feel like it’s like a cog in a machine kind of metaphor. The world itself is now operating like cog in a giant wheel of time. Each cog in the wheel is each time zone. At some point in time, that cog in the wheel that’s rotating is the world, some part of that cog needs to rest so that when the wheel comes back around it’s smooth, it’s rotatable, and it’s easy to adjust to help the wheel move forward. If we didn’t have technology and only went by the basis of the sun, then we wouldn’t be able to progress. The dislocation of time is not so much on the work itself but its affect and meaning. Hard-work doesn’t really have the same meaning it had in the past. It seems all that we are interested today is the monetary gains. Technology has changed the priorities that govern work-life.
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