MDDM23: Deluge, Time, Remembrance & Money

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> First the trickle, then the deluge ...

http://www.rand.org/multi/parallels/gehl.html

Among the results of this strategic redirection were a new Europe and an
entirely new world. In their 1995 book, The Axemaker's Gift: A
Double-Edged History of Human Culture, James Burke and Robert Ornstein
write:

"The effect of Gutenberg's letters would be to change the map of Europe,
considerably reduce the power of the Catholic Church, and alter the very
nature of the knowledge on which political and religious control was
based. The printing press would also help to stimulate nascent forms of
capitalism and provide the economic underpinning for a new kind of
community."

Ornstein Time? 

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-experience/

Capital & Time? 

Time is something to be worked with, not to be worked on or altered in
its basic structure. That is to say - again -- time is invariant, with
no regard for circumstance or even for time itself (time of day or time
of life). 

Visually, time is generally treated by economists as if it can be
conceived to be one long, ever-unfolding continuum that can be divided
into equal units, as shown in Figure 1. In Figure 1, the hypothetical
"time line" divides a person's life expectancy into equal portions. A
ten-year segment of time at the start of the expected life span, under
the conventional view, is no different (as represented by the length of
the segment) than a ten-year segment of time at the end of the expected
life span.