Monthly Archives: June 2009

Temporal survival

If the perception of time is subjective, then temporal perception is, in a strange way, a survival mechanism. This suggests that our everchanging perception of time is, like our everchanging perception of space, governed by our immediate survival needs. As a basic example, if time seems to slow down, then this might be the brain’s way [...]

Catching a waterfall in a paper cup

Among those of us, typically cited as 1/5 (but probably now 1/4) of world’s population, who have access, and are typically addicted, to the Internet, one of our biggest problems is information overload and, because of it, time management. Even without the Internet, time management is a real problem for people, but the Internet severely compounds [...]