Another random phrase I want to ponder for some reason: "the beginning of shelter," taken from a 1959 #NYT article by Ada Louise Huxtable.
The fuller phrase read "... the accepted basis of #architecture since the beginning of shelter"—itself quoted by #JamesGleick in his 11/3/22 #NYRB article on #BuckminsterFuller.
I'm trying to imagine what even the possibility of being able to identify the beginning of
*any* sort of shelter, —physical, emotional, etc.—might be like or involve.

Another random phrase I want to ponder for some reason: "the beginning of shelter," taken from a 1959 #NYT article by Ada Louise Huxtable.
The fuller phrase read "... the accepted basis of #architecture since the beginning of shelter"—itself quoted by #JamesGleick in his 11/3/22 #NYRB article on #BuckminsterFuller.
I'm trying to imagine what even the possibility of being able to identify the beginning of
*any* sort of shelter, —physical, emotional, etc.—might be like or involve.

> “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote #JamesGleick in.. #Faster. . Given what we know about the variability of our time sense, it seems clear that information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. Society’s “activity rhythm” has never been so harried. Impatience is a contagion spread from gadget to gadget.
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicholasCarr #Rapidification #ActivityRhythm #Impatience

> Nearing death, John Updike reflects on
>> A life poured into words—apparent waste
>> intended to preserve the thing consumed.
I can't really read #JamesGleick but skimming #TheInformation has me thinking about these last words from #JohnUpdike : A recent writer, David Eggers of David Foster Wallace, wrote that John Updike never had an unpublished thought, readers have to wade through 80% of his work to find the 20% that is good. We should be more considerate of each other's attention spans.

' “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote James #Gleick in his 1999 book Faster. Such compression characterized, as well, the preceding century. ”... information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. #speed with which we’re presented with new information and stimuli...our interactions with others.

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicolasCarr #JamesGleick #activityrhythm #workrhythm