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Seinfeld help wanted... wasn't there a seinfeld episode where he's trying to watch a tape recorded big game and avoiding conversations about the outcome? Which episode was that? Or am I thinking of a different show?
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You know, we can laugh at this ("VHS tapes.. time shift much?") but there is a really deep metaphysical problem that timeshifting presents to the sense-maker. It used to be that timeshift was due to geography - yours, or the event's - and a limitation of analog broadcast era.
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But we now live in an infosphere that doesn't attempt to preserve temporal coherence for anyone. Especially problematic b/c Internet has infinite perfect memory. So there is no pervasive driver to snap us into a coherent (albeit fragmented) "present".
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Rather, we each get our own staggered diverging trace through the infinite memory space. So not only are we pulled into filter bubbles of content/sentiment, but we are actually cut adrift from an old reliable driver of coherence & consensus reality: the gradient of time & memory.
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You just guessed 1 piece of the broader argument I'm trying to put together in this piece I'm writing for which I needed the example :) Yes... atemporality started in ~1980 for television once cable and VCR time shifting became ubiquitous
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Oh, wonderful! Look forward to it. Related to this is "chaos pressure" - the amount of stuff that "needs to be made sense of". With atemporality & global information network, we are constantly faced with the full pressure of everything, everywhere. We've lost "here", and "now".
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