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Matt Edgar: The Pace of Change

I think it has to do with perspective.

We humans see change as if looking through a window at a stormy night sky. Clouds rush by while the Moon appears a fixed point. In fact the Moon is hurtling by at 2288 miles per hour, much faster than the clouds. It’s just further away.

And because the clouds are moving, they draw our attention. We try to make sense of them, and see patterns in their random shapes. In a few hours the wind could turn and push the clouds a different way, but to us in the moment, they move in only one, inevitable direction.

So it is with the past relative to the present. Disruptive changes that happened long ago appear steady, motionless, shorn of their uncertainties and wrong turns, even though at the time there was nothing inevitable about their course.

Meanwhile the things that are changing around us stimulate our primitive motion-sensing reflexes. The new shiny grabs our attention at the expense of the far larger body of things that stay the same.

This is the paragraph that I would like to write about: this gives a great visual metaphor and made me understand how our perspective of 'radical' technological speed is. He says that the moon is moving much quicker than the clouds, but as it is further away the clouds seem to be moving quicker. He makes a very nice connection between the 'hugely' accelerating rate of change of the current good changes (the clouds)  and says we don't look at some things carefully enough thinking their the same old, like the media changing every day. This counts as the moon metaphor as we think of it as all the same and boring, but it is changing literally every day. He also says how change is not always going in one direction: he says the wind could turn and push the clouds a different way, but to us in the moment, they move in one inevitable direction.  This, I think, is trying to say that we only look at the good direction, not thinking of the bad things that might happen. He says the new, nearer things grab our attention well whereas the old motionless things about uncertainties and wrong turns doesn't grab our attention as much. So to conclude with this paragraph he says that the small 'shiny' things achieve our attention, not the large far off things that seem motionless although they are moving much much quicker than the smaller 'shinys'

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