Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decis…

Douglas Rushkoff
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Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2013). Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, p.55, Penguin
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