Something odd is happening to the world’s most valuable resource. Time is simultaneously speeding up and slowing down. We live in a world of instant communications and superfast internet. We also live in a world of infrastructure projects that crawl along for decades.

The other day my car wouldn’t start because I had left the key in the ignition overnight, draining the battery. I ordered a jump starter from Amazon.com and it arrived the next day. Made in China, it was presumably the product of dozens of just-in-time supply chains. I monitored its approach as it left the warehouse and sped to my house in an isolated bit of the British countryside.

QOSHE - The West Has a Bad Case of Temporal Whiplash - Adrian Wooldridge
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The West Has a Bad Case of Temporal Whiplash

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26.12.2023

Something odd is happening to the world’s most valuable resource. Time is simultaneously speeding up and slowing down. We live in a world of instant communications........

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