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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.
Harriet Martineau
Born: June 12, 1802
Died: June 27, 1876 (aged 74)
Bio: Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.
Known for:
- Society in America (1837)
- Illustrations of political economy (1832)
- Retrospect of western travel (1838)
- How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838)
- Harriet Martineau's Autobiography
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