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James Gleick: Time Travel

Long Now

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The Anachronism of Technology

Technology changes the way we live and these changes come rapidly. We tend to forget it wasn't always like that but of course it wasn't. Shakespeare scholars sometimes point out there are a bunch of anachronistic mistakes in his plays. In Julius Caesar a clock strikes the hour of three when actually there were no mechanical clocks in ancient Rome or for the next thousand years.

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