Things are changing all the time. Just about everything that exists is changing in the universe, or the implications of evolutionary changes are slow and to a point where it is imperceptible. However, in certain parts of the world or ” some remote corners of this universe, change is taking place rapidly. I am specifically talking about those “clever animals” which extend the augmented capacity by manipulating the surrounding environment through technology. The ability to distinguish a clever human animal who enhances the use of technology from the other less intelligent species living in the same world. Technology has become a precondition to human existence because it enables humans to think of themselves as clever; otherwise, they were annihilating themselves through nuclear wars or global warming.
As technology changes with time, so do the relationship with the environment. Technological change has gathered momentum in the Western world over the last hundred years. Before that, change was less imperceptible. Technological development in the developed world has at least seen more significant progress in the modern era than in human history. The rapid change rate can be measured on a time graph to show the difference in humanoid technological advancement. For example, technical complexity is plotted on the
vertical axis and time on the horizontal, then perhaps the likely result would
indicate a line that barely crept above the baseline until it almost reached
the further edge, at which point it would curve dramatically until it
was almost vertical. The exponential rate of technological development is hard to grasp because the growth rate concerning size is drastically sharp. The concomitants of this day and age of computers from flint tools suggest that technological prostheses have helped humans to digitize our culture.
If we look through the World System Theories of Capitalism, digital technology evolved essentially as part of these historical developments.
The computerization of banking, international currency exchange, and trading has dramatically aided the rise of globalization and financial
liberalization. The possibilities of convergence and integration
that digital technology offers have led it to dominate technical
developments in media and communications. Computers are also
the essential means by which the vast amounts of data that large
techno-scientific projects require are managed and manipulated.
The concurrent development of science, media, and capital under
the aegis of digital technology produces a fast-forward effect.
Everything appears to take place at an accelerated rate and
produces a dramatic change quickly. This excites both
The History of Time :
How time has changed is illustrated in an infographic chart; of light.
Open link: https://magic.piktochart.com/embed/13268794-untitled-infographic
The discussions on ‘Digital Time’ concern time culture and artificial intelligence. To think that human beings can be distinguished from machines is now becoming seemingly delusional in capitalist cultures where ‘Time is money.’ This paper will evaluate the meta-physical challenges faced by the people on this planet. Today society is becoming incoherent, increasingly fragmented, concurrently global and local, and challenging space and time as the calendars are turning upside down in a 24/7 community. If we think about it, digital technology is transforming our lives faster than the evolutionary changes that are moving slower. The hegemony of clock time was not confined to developed countries but spread globally as a historical process of colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. The problem with the ideology of clock time is that it is measured in different time zones. For example, Greenwich Mean Time in 1884 is outdated! Time is no longer limited to a confined space and boundaries of disciplined work. The ‘world time’ is linear, quantifiable, and synchronized by GMT. This time temporal imperialism has sustained the idea of western time culture as being more developed and silenced non-western cultures. However, Algorithmic Cultures reshape our lives without space and time restrictions. The above discussions raise some interesting questions about how time is evolving. The paragraph below takes the reader on a journey in the time capsule SOLARIUS and gives insight into how sleeping patterns are affected. This film is about virtual time, where the invisibility of time affects sleeping patterns because of the constant light in the space station.
Film review SOLARIS
This paragraph reviews Andrei Tarkovsky’s remarkable film of the 1960s, SOLARIS is becoming a reality today. The film is set on the Solaris space station, where two cosmonauts die mysteriously. The astronauts are in a different time zone, with no barriers of day or night. In the film, technologist scientist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate the strange phenomenon of watching the Solaris crew. This USSR film production by Andrey Tarkovsky is a brilliant conceptualization of how human beings confined in a space station with artificial lighting and lack of sleep affect consciousness after some time. The actor faces those same challenges that send him to the darkest recesses of his consciousness and how his thoughts on love and humanity are challenged on the space station. The film shows how insomnia can impact an individual’s life and, in this case, a scientist, so what about ordinary people? The film is so much to think about at a metaphysical level. Insomnia is a chronic condition, and in the movie, the actor’s memory creates snippets of a loved one from the past, and he expresses paranoia, hallucination, and loneliness in space. He is deeply affected by the alien world and the mystery surrounding it. Much of what is happening today as people are not sleeping and spending more time with machines and brightly lit artificial lighting or in urban cities where the time to sleep is replaced by 24/7 nightlife. The notion of portraying sleeplessness as bearable and eventually, after repeated denials and repression, the mind attains freedom. The office or the computer station becomes our own private space station, and the user becomes disconnected from the outside world and public space. Too much time spent on the laptop or mobile phones can lead human beings towards loneliness and anxiety, but as we saw in the film, Solarius can be a good thing leading us to emancipation, liberation, and freedom eventually. The following paragraph discusses the expansion of time around the clock.
SLEEP v/s 24/7
No longer is sleep governed by light and darkness or between recuperation and work or physical activity and rest. Sleep is not monolithic, but the patterns and forms of sleep are variegated for centuries. The minds of human beings are constantly switched on, even at night, by the number of awake people checking their messages and data. The notion of sleep is no longer a natural process and has become incomparable with capitalist mode. If this argument is agreeable, then there is no difference between the machine-made-designation and “sleep mode.” Today, exposure to fatal thresholds such as ecological disturbances in the environment and our bodies assimilating to the ever-expanding exhortation of working without a pause contributes to disturbed sleeping patterns. Sleeping time is reduced in a digital society, given the enormity of economic stakes. Therefore, the disillusionment between machines and man was simplified at the start of this discussion. As in the race of time and technology, machines are taking over, and humans may feel alienated on our own planet. While scientists are waiting to get signals from more advanced worlds as we constantly evolve in space and time. But, wait a moment, as we shall see distinct differences between gender time on earth.
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Gender & Politics of Time (Book Review)
In the earlier part, the explanation of how sleep is affected by the dynamics of modernization and capitalism, the latter part will explain the revolution of time and political awakening concerning gender. The political importance of discourse is linking childcare, domestic violence, and female genital mutilation to promote sex equality. Patriarchal structures in societies and capitalism are fluid and variable. Nevertheless, they have conflicted locally and globally, opening up possibilities for cross-cutting by feminist intervention. Awareness of the feminist politics of the time is essential because the stubborn reality of male domination prevails. How women and men are socially constructed in societies depends upon several variables of socioeconomic and political constraints. Although nature’s call of mensuration and childbirth gives women a special bond with time, the ignoring of womanly qualities by ‘male stream’ theorists and arguments on hormonal differences is debatable over the issue of time.
“The objective `of trying to understand what is troubling about this world is to change it.” Even as we progress to digital time, the gender difference arguments are embedded and interlocked with ideas and experiences of time on gender integrated into part of male privileges. The internet has potentially transformed the injustices done to women as more and more women are playing significant roles in neutralizing gender roles of deviance. But, in daily lives, gender relationships require individual acts and state policies to support them. However, on a positive note, small changes can also have a cumulative effect on gender justice. Male time leaves women at a double disadvantage because women get shadowed by male time. Therefore a deconstruction of what is male time and women’s time in the framework of social time requires a contingent approach. As gender identities are complex and if they are looked at as multiple, intellectual human beings, male and female time is dissolved. The above paragraph explains the dual nature of time for men and women. However, the next section is on quantum physics aspects of space and time dimensions.
The theory of Relativity: Time is one-dimensional on earth but four-dimensional in space. The Einstein field theory identified the electromagnetic field and gravitational field. The area is infinite with no matter and material points. The functionality of the theory is based on vectors and speed.
Time Travel :
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Einstein’s big idea twin paradox(watch video Einstein’s twin) is: as you travel faster or if you find yourself in a higher gravity, Time ticks more slowly for you because photons (carriers of light) move at the speed of light Time stops for the photons (which is light itself). And Time does not lapse for the photon, which is a spooky thought compared to a hundred billion hours of our Time is zero Time for the photon. The neurosnaptic thought rate slows down, including the environment, and this process happens in the subconscious mind. The speed of light is the same for everybody, and the laws of physics remain constant (time dilation). Einstein’s theory remains popular because it employed the Riemannian concept of space, as seen in the video above.
So, far discussions on TIME have been relatively complex. This section explores TIME and its significance to architecture. The concept of Time is immanent. Nevertheless, it has been a fundamental challenge to historical Time itself. Fundamentally because of the transformation between western scientific and cultural disciplines. It embodies the return of classical debates on the heterodox of Time, texts, and ideas in different eras. Skeptics can argue, contradict and debate the notion of Time on orthodox religious and scientific regimes. Both groups of thinkers are at tangents in their ways of thought. However, one thing remains TIME needs to be more homogeneous, and the groups agree with that. Modernism theorists suggest that their research is intrinsically linked to antagonist philosophers of Greek and early Christian cosmologies. And that western religious/scientific orthodoxy is based on the preliminary hypothesis laid by Greek philosophers. In the exemplary intellectual model of the twentieth-first century, the religion-scientific epidemiological viewpoint on modernism has remained constant throughout Western Theory. The causal and analogic relations of events have been clearly separated by TIME and Space. Or they have been separated by analytical divisions between academic disciplines. But on a deeper understanding, fundamental challenges have ruptured from the outside and challenged historical Time and the times the events took place. But the fact remains that TIME IS IMMANENT. (Kwinter, 2002, pp. 215-217)
Kwinter, S. (2002). Architecture of Time. London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Breaking time barriers with reference to Art: Updated May 30, 2016
Art performances and practices have become digital, but there are two distinctions when comparing the history of art and tools. These are regarding time dimensions and how they impacted art and art objects. To analyze how Time, technology, and art are bound together, we would have to step back when no tools were required. Early human beings made the tools, and the history of art goes back tens of thousands of years. It was only in the 1950s that George Bastille introduced the idea of humans, tools, and Time. Relate the two eras from before the 1950s and after, in which art existed, had a shared notion: art is primarily a game till today. The main similarity between modern art and art objects is that making art objects requires playing, and creating tools was the artist’s birth. Several common characteristics require tools and some relative skills in molding and control.
Nevertheless, art s relation to utilitarian activity is limited to function without giving any importance or value, and it was a way of protesting against existence. This practice continues today, and the experimentation of art and technology continues. In that sense, the reference to that art is still a game (Gere, 2006, p. 13).
In the late 1950s, Lauri-Gaurhan investigated human language and the use of tools as zoological, evolutionary phenomena resulting from the human brain and collective knowledge. He pioneered original technicity and human technics as a parallel development between the brain and the muses of the ear, hand, and mouth. Graphic symbolism and phonic language are, in fact, interlinked. He was influenced by the Mediterranean civilizations of European groups that used graphical tools and linear phonetics for techno-economic development. His concept of externalizing human memory traces back to the earliest flint tools and continues to punch cards and electronic memory. He was a radical philosopher who expressed that the two languages of sound and sights were linked to phonetic language and the dimension of Time as cosmic and multidimensional experience (Gere, 2006, pp. 16-17).
Bernard Stiegler describes the artist as a techie that invents the human, not the human that develops the technical. Steigler traces back to post-Neanderthal humans and suggests that technological evolution has continued to accelerate even though genetic structures seem to have stabilized biologically, attest for the moment. Steigler recognizes a third order of being in techies, which is neither genetic nor simply epigenetic. But in fact is phylogenetic because his (artist’s) memory which was originally epigenetic, was brought together by transforming the individual’s experience, and this memory technics in producing a possibility of a new culture. The unique culture, which I call the digital culture. The fact that humans can conserve their experiences in the form of the exterior of the human body – in the technic part of our brain- constitutes a third kind of memory. This differs from the memory or the central nervous system we inherit through our genes and the experiences we accumulate during our lifetime. Digital culture, as this blog is, is about our species of humans that do not inherit the experiences of which we are composed but are about transmitting individual experiences that make the exteriorization process possible. Therefore, the being (artist or individual) develops as the tools are produced and not the personal experience in the tool itself. Here the tool is referred to exteriorization of life in another organ that is not living when the maker of the tool dies. Finally, technics is, above all, memory, a third memory, and civilization are heading for permanent innovation (Gere, 2006, pp. 19-21).
Bollywood in the Future: Cloning favorite Bollywood stars
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There is hardly any mention of Bollywood cinema, but advanced technological changes are taking place in Indian cinema. The entire film Gunja is available to watch in the Youtube presentation. It is in the local language, Hindi, and made in 3D animation technology. The video was published on December 18, 2015, for children by Raishma Jaiswal. The voice in the video is from famous personalities such as Aditya Pancholi, Divya Dutta, and Suresh Oberoi. This film makes us question the sinister meaning of story telly techniques and the magnetic interrelations between natural action and software machine technology. Adding authentic human voices to the animated characters and voices of real musicians and artists seems bizarre to create a concrete movie out of utilitarian perfection, which by a distant dynamism is brought into harmonious interaction of the sea, trees, people, and village (Gere, 2006, p. 75).
Gere, C. (2006). Art time and technology. New York: Berg publishers.
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