- Imagine and briefly describe a world without clocks. What would your life look like without measured time?
A world without clocks would be peaceful to me. There would be no count down from hour to hour, waiting on the next event to happen; my days would appear longer, and maybe a little happier, without the constant looking at the clock to see how much longer my waking hours will last. Because of school, I am constantly busy with assignments and homework. My hours pass either very fast or extremely long because of the amount of work I am involved with. To me, there are not enough hours to complete a perfect, well-balanced day. Without time, the hours are up to yourself, when events happen and how long they last. Life would be easier for me to not judge how early I go to bed - even though they are times when it is dark outside - because I have a habit of staying up late, thinking 10 pm and 11 pm are too early for me. I would be able to listen to my body instead of relying on the time to tell me what to do. If there were no time, I wouldn't feel pressured and anxious to get stuff done then seeing what little time is left for me to enjoy.
- What did Mumford mean by
the statement: “Time-keeping passed into time-serving and time-accounting and
time-rationing. As this took place, Eternity ceased gradually to serve as the
measure and focus of human actions.” Ponder the technologies available to us
today in terms of instantaneous communication. How will/have our perceptions of
time changed?
Time was originally a way to call monks to worship in a regular routine of prayers and devotions. Thus, most people's minds were focused on the eternity of entering God's kingdom and experiencing the everlasting life. People began to measure time as a way to work, to synchronize the actions of men. In today's time, there are numerous ways that we can instantaneously communicate with others in the world including Facebook, Skype, mobile phones, and the internet. Our perceptions of time have changed because now we no longer have to wait days, months, and even years for our letters to be delivered, our phone call to connect, or even a Morse code to be deciphered. Time has sped up for us in these technologies and we even have the right to ask why someone hasn't responded yet to us because of the instant connections.
- How did the clock standardize production and disassociate time from nature? What is the difference between mechanical time and organic time?
The clock made it so that every man could follow a punctual life, being on time to work and performing within the work hours to achieve as much as they can. People now had a time limit to work, from start to finish. Time from nature ceased because people were no longer acknowledging their bodies to tell them when to eat or sleep, or relying on the events of the day to measure time. They tried to match up a certain hour to tell them when to eat or go to bed. Mechanical time is a mathematical measurement that can be sped up or run backwards; it has a numbered amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days, and months, in a year. Organic time is based upon the body and how it feels time passing; through the pulse of a heartbeat, the breathing of the lungs, and the way time either speeds up with happier moments and slows down in sadder times. Organic time can also be measured in our human life cycles; from birth and growth, to decay and death.
- In this article what is the relationship between time and space? How did people’s relationship to history change with the clock?
No two cultures exist in the same kind of time and space. What one person believes, values, sees, and experiences are very different from what a person in the next generation believes, values, sees, and experiences. To exemplify, a person in the Middle Ages might write about an anonymous beloved king, not providing the reader with a name. A person living today, in this culture would read the letter and not understand who the beloved king was because the previous person lived in another life; the king held a position that is probably held by a different monarch in the present that is also beloved. People began an interest in perspective, which changed the way an image correlates to sight. Artists change the importance of size in an artwork; instead of important figures in paintings being the most dominant size, the biggest figure would mean that it is closer to the viewer, adding depth. This innovation helped cartographers create the latitude and longitude of maps, thus allowing sailors and discoverers to sail the sea without becoming lost.
Time was originally a way to call monks to worship in a regular routine of prayers and devotions. Thus, most people's minds were focused on the eternity of entering God's kingdom and experiencing the everlasting life. People began to measure time as a way to work, to synchronize the actions of men. In today's time, there are numerous ways that we can instantaneously communicate with others in the world including Facebook, Skype, mobile phones, and the internet. Our perceptions of time have changed because now we no longer have to wait days, months, and even years for our letters to be delivered, our phone call to connect, or even a Morse code to be deciphered. Time has sped up for us in these technologies and we even have the right to ask why someone hasn't responded yet to us because of the instant connections.
- How did the clock standardize production and disassociate time from nature? What is the difference between mechanical time and organic time?
The clock made it so that every man could follow a punctual life, being on time to work and performing within the work hours to achieve as much as they can. People now had a time limit to work, from start to finish. Time from nature ceased because people were no longer acknowledging their bodies to tell them when to eat or sleep, or relying on the events of the day to measure time. They tried to match up a certain hour to tell them when to eat or go to bed. Mechanical time is a mathematical measurement that can be sped up or run backwards; it has a numbered amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days, and months, in a year. Organic time is based upon the body and how it feels time passing; through the pulse of a heartbeat, the breathing of the lungs, and the way time either speeds up with happier moments and slows down in sadder times. Organic time can also be measured in our human life cycles; from birth and growth, to decay and death.
- In this article what is the relationship between time and space? How did people’s relationship to history change with the clock?
No two cultures exist in the same kind of time and space. What one person believes, values, sees, and experiences are very different from what a person in the next generation believes, values, sees, and experiences. To exemplify, a person in the Middle Ages might write about an anonymous beloved king, not providing the reader with a name. A person living today, in this culture would read the letter and not understand who the beloved king was because the previous person lived in another life; the king held a position that is probably held by a different monarch in the present that is also beloved. People began an interest in perspective, which changed the way an image correlates to sight. Artists change the importance of size in an artwork; instead of important figures in paintings being the most dominant size, the biggest figure would mean that it is closer to the viewer, adding depth. This innovation helped cartographers create the latitude and longitude of maps, thus allowing sailors and discoverers to sail the sea without becoming lost.
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