Looking for examples of "fake clocks". Ones I have in mind:
1. Wait times in uber/lyft
2. Reading time estimates in Medium
3. Download countdowns or other sort of computer processing countdown
Any others?
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flight delay estimates (the kind where departure time is incrementally pushed back until flight is ultimately canceled)
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Cancelled.
I always wonder when they did the market research and came up with the 20 minute increment: enough to let people know it's a wait, but not long enough where people will act up.
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I always assume the goal is to trick people into staying at the gate
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Good call, theres so much fake time in transportation
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The responses to my prompt are interesting raw material but I don’t yet see a theorizing lens. Maybe detemporalization like your despatialization.
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