After reading Paul’s “Digital Technologies as Tools”, I was thinking of what is considered “new”. In other words, I started thinking about the value of time, and how it can be relative.

One would say that the “new” is whatever is not “old”. However, what is “old”? What might seem old to one could be perceived as new to another. In that sense, I suppose that the “new” is something that creates an evolution, an improvement if you will.

With this idea of improvement comes the idea of a move from something that is becoming somehow obsolete. In a sense, the concept of time that is inherent to the idea of the “new” is paired with a concept of movement. Let’s think about it a little further: The idea of time as we perceive it has been defined with units such as a minute, an hour, a day, a month, and so on. But what defines a day? It is the period of time that Earth takes to spin around itself. Same with a year: it is the period of time that Earth takes to revolve around the sun. The use of the word revolve is not a mere coincidence. It happens to have the same roots as “evolve”, and by extension, is linked to the idea of evolution.

There you have it. We have gone full circle, and spent some time covering this topic (very briefly I must add). So I am wondering: using the definition that was used above, could this post be already “old”, or obsolete? This is a never ending loop, which is what give beauty to time: it is static and enables you to live in the present, but also constantly in movement for collection of all the present moments make the past, and are bound the make the future as well. In other words, one can say that “The present was yesterday, and will be tomorrow”.