Because we have such a linear existence within the human experience, it is hard to imagine what not living in relation to time and space is like. Our linearity is baked into our language which favors expressing cause and effect). This makes our words a poor tool to convey the non-linear experience.

Through video calls, we can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the planet, thereby collapsing distance. Through technologies such as video recording, we now document more comprehensive records of the past / our past selves, thereby collapsing time. This makes how we view the past different from those before photography and... See more