Book Description | This book is about our obsession with time and the desire to measure it, sell it, visualize it, implement it, immortalize it and make it meaningful. It highlights how, over the past two hundred and fifty years, time has become a dominant and persistent force in our lives, and asks why, after tens of thousands of years of casting our eyes to the sky in search of mysterious and fickle guidance, we are now taking very precise signals from our phones and computers. Not once or twice a day, but constantly and compulsively |