I came across the Longnow Foundation at Fort Mason. Their mission is to change our definition of 'now', believing it is too short a time period, and we should think longer term. They have various projects including a large orrery which has the planets moving in relative scale.
Its an interesting idea. What is 'now'?
'Now' for a volcano such as the Amboy Crater is thousands of years. For a tree 'now' might be the current season, for a muscle cell requiring constant nutrient supply else it dies, 'now' might be fractions of a second.
Maybe the underlying message is that as a society we have gone from change driving us, to us driving change, and being addicted to it. So much of what we do only occurs because of change. A new blog entry else visitors will stop coming, a new range of cars because advertisers don't want to advertise old stuff, and so on.
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