We produce time by being alive (?)

Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything (Paperback)
by James Gleick (Author)

Type A personalities - press the button in the lift to close the door - placebo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_personality

Charles Dudley Warner, 1884, “The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of freedom”

Plautus: “The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish hours!”

Technology was to provide the fabled leisure society* - but we’ve just had to keep up with the machines. We deal with one item of work faster - but then another arrives faster.

Technology = not more lesiure or productivity - but more hours spent looking busy?

Ankore tribe (Uganda?) - doing nothing is not “wasting time”, but “creating time”. By being alive.

*A kind of leisure society for some? In UK - state benefits? etc?

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See also: The end of time - Julian Barbour

Time does not exist. Everything happens all at once. Parallel worlds etc.

We perceive an overlapping set of instants wrote John Gribbon of Barbour’s theory, which gives us an illusion of time moving.

The film strip! Feck.

How do we enter the next frame? Probability? Genes? Who’s lining up the frames?