TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Evolution of time/space and time/value relationships
• Characteristics of time-based advantage
• Always "on"
• Connected time vs. unconnected time
• Youth time
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous work
• Cheating latency
• Time paradoxes
• Representing time
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Communications is increasingly asynchronous. Most of us spend time on "real time" because we have no other easy means. Phone tag is often something that could have been avoided with message passing off-line. In the future, real time voice communication will decrease, and circuits will give way to packets, everywhere.
Social patterns will become more asynchronous too. Lockstep obedience of large chunks of the population who commute, vacation and watch TV at the same time, will be replaced by a temporally more plural world. Countries and regions that arbitrarily restrict hours of operation and work will just not be competitive. It is a 7 x 24 world.