The British physicist Julian Barbour is one of those admirable people who, having gained his PhD, realised that concentration on research and scholarship is incompatible with working in the modern university, and has had a very successful career as an independent researcher in the foundations of physics. Most notably, starting from the observation that we… Continue reading Julian Barbour: timeless complexity and the records of the universe
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Updating time and time literacy
Last year (2023), Tom Mason and I published a paper in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology on "Times New Plural - The multiple temporalities of contemporary life and the infosphere". The open access paper is here, and a shortened 'translation' in Information Matters is here. In this paper, we examined experiences… Continue reading Updating time and time literacy
The Occasional Informationist 