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·Well, one thing you can say about that watch is that it's very effective at serving its purpose... .which would make it highly rated as a "tool".
the thing is it's digital, which means it's too precise a measure of time for humans to bother with. I mean who says "it's 4:51"? That's why analog watches are better. they provide a close enough measure of time that we can understand that it's passing, but not so precise that we have to calculate the exact number to an approximate one. "it's about 10 to 5".
But on topic, I can understand why, from 1982, you might think that the digital watch was the apex of evolution of time telling devices. Seriously. What could you do to improve upon that watch? I mean, other than make it run forever without the need to charge or change batteries (which isn't an optimization on the time telling abilities, more of an optimization on the convenience factor of having time on your wrist.
maybe they got it right and WE'RE wrong... hmmm....
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...edit just to add that the one thing we (someone?) could do to improve upon our conception of time would be to implement a time system that was not tied to the little ball of gas that keeps us warm, or the rotational speed of the insignificant piece of rock we live on... I mean, c'mon, *24* hours in a day? 30-31 days in a month, and one month only 28? "leap year"? WTF? what kind of measures are those?? We need something better if we're going to get off this planet.
I have such a time keeping system, but I didn't want to be the guy that ended (current) time. Cause who knows what that even means?
Have you seen those 24 hour single hand watches? I think they describe them as “slow time”. You can only roughly telll the time with them. It’s a nice idea, slowing us down and stopping us being slaves to the second. On the other hand my working life is a series of meetings and being late or overrunning wouldn’t work for me. That’s western capitalism for you, I guess.
As for the archaic method of marking time, I like that. It’s very human, being based in nature and seasonal cycle. The duodecimal method of counting actually makes a lot of sense, you can count to 12 on one hand using the three sectors of each finger, minus thumb which is used as the counting digit.
Long live analogue timekeeping!
