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this could also be used as a rant against libraries, which also are agents of keeping the archaic alive. this is not the problem - since the renaissance, we are trying to keep old things alive, with more success as time passes. what we now observe, with the internet and the advent of digital space, is the logarithmic expansion of the present, which accomodates a lot more of the past but also a lot more of what happens in the present itself. this does not necessarily cancel the future - on the contrary, it brings the future closer to the hyper-inflationist present. in that sense, fisher has a point about the flattening of time, but the future is not disappearing, it is only changing its locus on the time horizon, like the relativistic foreshortening of distance that comes with speed.
