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Controlling time — whether via the clocks for churches, trains or data centers — has always been a function of controlling the political order.”

— Kate Crawford

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From the perspective of deep time, we are extracting Earth's geological history to serve a split second of contemporary technological time, building devices like the Amazon Echo and iPhone that are often designed to last for only a few years.

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