“10 Timeframes”

1 · Evan Hahn · Aug. 20, 2012, 5 a.m.
Paul Ford gave a closing keynote and put the transcript online. He discusses time in a lot of different contexts: time in seconds, time in decades, time in heartbeats. It's a very interesting way to look at things: So how do you spend nanoseconds [in a computer]? If you have trillions of them to spend you use them for all sorts of stuff. You add shadows under windows to give the illusion of depth. You make it possible for someone to watch a streaming movie in one window while they write a compu...