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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      Rather satisfyingly, the monotemporal era lasted almost exactly 100 years. The opening bookend is the 1883 standardization of US railroad time, the closing bookend was the Apple 1984 ad, which interestingly, first ran on Dec 31, 1983, to ensure it qualified for 1983 awards.😆

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      Those are not just symbolic events within a smooth history, the actually did represent sharp dis ontinuitied. Monotemporality was manufactured by the railroads, killed by the personal computer. The boot-up/shut-down transitions were less than a decade in each case.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      To my original point, monotemporality was unplanned in the sense that people didn’t realize how deep the effects of synchronizing time globally would be. Railroads just wanted to manage ops. Labor unions just wanted more humane hours. Newspapers just had to win circulation wars.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      But all that somehow harmonized into a condition where everything got regimented and regulated. Like a bunch of unsynchronized fireflies coming into bottom up synchronization. And before you know it the whole world is synchronized.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      One reason OODA-loop type thinking (time-based competition in war and peace) was so effective starting with WW2 was that world had gotten into a homeostatic synchronized state, where everything had a tendency to harmonize with the global tempo. So breaking tempo = defection ftw.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      Humanity mistook the synthesized, emergent tempo of modernity for an immutable natural one, like seasons. Those who recognized it was fake could break temporal consensus for fun and profit. Monotemporality was not a Nash equilibrium of tempos. Just a false temporal consciousness.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      Though you can’t attribute its breakdown entirely to temporal defection. My estimate: 20%: temporal defection 30% destabilizing harmonics (like marching soldiers on flimsy bridges causing catastrophic failure) 50% growth yields of monotemporality becoming unpredictable

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Bravo Johnson

      Good question. The murder was planned (along with unbridled laissez faire actually) to preserve economic growth. The murderer was neoliberalism. The method was deregulation. The cases belli was panic over the rise of Japan. Motive, means, opportunity.https://twitter.com/bravojohnson5/status/1170385997177057280?s=21 …

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      So if monotemporality’s murder was planned let’s say “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” our new time lords custodianship is degenerating into a stagnated ceremony-bound oligarchy pretty fast. can we thrive in non linear narratives?
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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      “Can we thrive in nonlinear narratives?” It’s not an inevitable outcome. We have to invent our way out of atemporality (the “murdered time” state). Half my project with multitemporality is to frame the invention problem. The other half is to survey experiments already underway.

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    10. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 7 Sep 2019
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      "Can we thrive in nonlinear narratives?" Yes. Ask me how I know.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Sep 2019
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      How do you know?

      10:54 AM - 7 Sep 2019
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        2. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 7 Sep 2019
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          Been doing it for a bit (I think).

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        3. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 7 Sep 2019
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          Not just individually: collectively, in both loosely and tightly coupled ways. Several countercultures I'm connected with have already been developing finger-feel for this, for a while. (I'm also on a non-linear track, myself, but individual practice is far less interesting.)

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