TTBOOK Presents: Deep Time Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
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Jun 3, 2023 Why does time feel like a relentless countdown? Jenny Odell traces the pressure of clock-watching from medieval work rhythms to modern productivity tools, while historian David Rooney explores how clocks have served faith, power, and global finance. Their conversation moves from climate change and natural rhythms to atomic clocks, leap seconds, and the possibility of living by more than one kind of time.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Pain of Time Running Out
01:41 • 4min
How to Be the Boss of All of Them
05:23 • 3min
The History of Quantified Time
08:50 • 2min
The Colonization of Time
10:44 • 2min
The Relationship Between Time and Climate Change
12:40 • 2min
Chrono Diversity: A Guide to Living a Better Life
14:47 • 2min
The Thread of Time
16:23 • 3min
The Tyranny of Time
18:58 • 4min
The History of Clocks
23:26 • 4min
The History of the Clock
27:12 • 2min
The Tension Between Mechanical Man-Made Time and Natural Seasonal Time
29:36 • 5min
The History of Time
34:21 • 2min
The History of High Frequency Trading
36:03 • 2min
The First Change of Its Type in Human Recorded History
38:09 • 2min
The First Atomic Clock
39:46 • 2min
The Benefits of Earth Rotation Time
42:09 • 2min
The Leap Second
43:51 • 2min
The Big Change Is About to Happen
45:28 • 3min
The Hidden Corners of Time
48:02 • 2min
Deep Time: A Conversation With David Rooney
49:59 • 2min