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Big Blue Marble

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1. The modern ideas of progress and time''s arrow are post industrial concepts that shape modern

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Sat Jan 17, 2026, 06:04 PM

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society. A great book discussing the impact of our perception of time is Jeremey Rifkin's book, Time Wars, 1989.
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Wars-Primary-Conflict-Touchstone/dp/0671671588/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1MONAGXJ6G3C9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9Td9Ql-b52rN5Yk9tm6NashAZox3vjZpT73f1RCoX7B4fROb0X1ObRD7dSw9VgeBon5bLEfBE8LSwVsGG0Hm86IkF-GL-iUuUVZvdU4AB-WPWcv3h3BvUPqWtkto37kMzNmVCSc_vo62rM9wbz6twV2srxzJ0F-US0sLEdokrWIX7Ki7ttXg9x0DIp5xrESh7xxJzWdVLncQzBvsKfyQr3tjcm74G1NqxXz4hRsfdsI.MWFqpryKcw-o-SeIJv9TiHCT2qmfJ6833xU2E1knL4s&dib_tag=se&keywords=TIME+WARS&qid=1768690486&sprefix=time+wars%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-3

Imagine living in neolithic Europe where in your life; time was measured in cycles and technologies were fixed.
My theory is that to these people their shorter lives may have have actually felt longer. With so much change,
our lives are longer but speed by faster.

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