The time we spend focusing on any one thing is getting smaller. With the rise of social media, and its videos lasting only a few seconds, or the rush of the modern world always pulling our attention in so many directions, we rarely get the opportunity to give  meaningful prolonged time to any one experience.

Clocks shape our lives, from the watches on our wrists, or the alarms on our phones, to the satellites orbiting far above our heads. Clocks tell us when to get up, when to go to work, when to rest, when to eat. Clocks power our GPS, our phones, our banking systems. They fuel global communications and are present during the intimate moments of our lives, timekeeping is utterly embedded into the fabric of our lives to the point where, should clocks suddenly cease functioning,  the world as we know it would unravel.