Wacker and Taylor say the solution is to come up with a new rhythm and a new language that fit the new sense of time. It is a wonderful term that we will let them explain in the excerpt that follows. Today, we have sacrificed depth for breadth. In so doing we have weakened nearly every link that ties us to here and now. We now live in both present and future tenses simultaneously, anxious to step forward into the future and certain we have to do so, yet nostalgic for the present moment before we ever leave it.
Newspapers are a great example of the new paradox of time.
Feiler couldn t be more right. Take the front page of any newspaper, read the first few paragraphs of the articles there, and it will seem as if the future already has occurred. Speculation gets treated as fact. Next week has become an element of history. Articles are based less on reporting than on predictions.