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Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day’s output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they’re usually right.

The ‘gatekeepers’ became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it’s on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven’t the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It’s fantastic what they put out, it’s extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.