Timekeepers

An expanded version of this originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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Time, once passive, is now aggressive. It dominates our lives in ways that the earliest clockmakers would have surely found unbearable. We believe that time is running away from us. Technology is making everything faster, and because we know that things will become faster in the future, it follows that nothing is fast enough now. . . But the strangest thing of all is this: if they were able, the earliest clockmakers would tell us that the pendulum swings at the same rate as it always has, and the calendars have been fixed for hundreds of years. We have brought this cauldron of rush upon ourselves. Time seems faster because we have made it so.

White Noise

Timekeepers

This is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to beat it. . . The book has but two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.

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Timekeepers

Disclaimer: I received this eARC from the swell folks at Canongate Books via NetGalley in exchange for this post – thanks to both for this. I'm very sorry this posted after the release date, my notes had that in March.