jackcheng:

“Time is a material.”

Matt Jones of Berg’s presentation, “All the time in the world” is a springboard into so many interesting avenues regarding time, space and design. Seen here is Michel Gondry’s lo-fi “making of” video for the Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar video.

this can be some pretty heavy stuff if you let it be.  matt is one of the guys who works on dopplr.  at the heart of all this:  as humans, we create context.  signals, data, physical things, non-physical things.  items that define our existence and and help us function.  ”time” is one of those things.  pulling from the (great) presentation, at some point in the 17th century, we separated “time” from our existence with the belief that we weren’t connected.  it existed on a wholly seperate plane almost dictating existence.  when, arguably, it’s the opposite.  how do we keep track of “time?”

a clock.  a clock that a human created.  hopefully, this analogy rings true.

furthermore, matt from february of this year:

I’m still convinced that hereish-and-soonish/thereish-and-thenish are the grain we need to be exploring rather than just connecting a network of the pulsing ‘blue-dot’.

accuracy is a tenant of context.  you need something to be mathematically accurate (longitude & latitude) in order to build on top of it but so what if i’m on a street corner somewhere?  what am i doing?  what have i done?  will i be back?  what have i done there in the past?  will it be happening again?

it happens in the sub-conscious, but we (humans) learn from our interactions with each other.  learned behavior.  if i’m hanging out with friends, i might expect to do it again in a location and want to include others and at the same time - i’ll tailor what we do based on what we’ve done.

think of networks as vehicles (maybe platforms).  am i twittering?  no.  i’m giving you context.