the history of time(telling) repeats itself
Has anyone noticed that we, as in society, have gone full circle in our favorite method of personal timekeeping? Go back a hundred years ago, and if you wanted to know the time without being bothered to look in the direction of the nearest courthouse/parlimentary building, you had a pocket watch, those delightful little analog watches on a chain. As we went forward, those watches eventually got strapped to people’s wrists. That has been pretty much the way of the things for the last few generations.
But now that all seems to be changing. The days of the wrist watch are coming to an end. More and more people, myself included, are largely putting aside the tan-line creating wrist-strap and are putting all of their time-telling trust in their cellphones. And why not? You are going to have the phone with you anyway. The time is automatically set to the atomic clock used to control GSP satellites, so it is always right and immune from time drifting, timezone changes, and daylight saving time. And, of course, you keep said phone in your pocket. So long live the pocket watch!
You know, now that I think about it, I really want a cellphone made to look like a traditional pocket watch, with the metal clamshell body and the little chain. That would be awsome. Someone make me one.
You’re the engineer. You make one.