Meditações - You can’t even tell if it’s 1:29 or 1:30

Why has the digital clock taken over our coffee makers, dashboards, watches, world? Tacky, robotic, inferior, it gives up its information too readily. It has blinding pulsing lights. It is dismissive of its ancient origins. “This is the age of science!” it says. “Look at that dumb analog! You can’t even tell if it’s 1:29 or 1:30.”

Deb Olin Unferth