A SYNCHRONIC SOCIETY sets high value on the human engagement with TIME. We human beings are time-bounds entities. So are all our creations. We cannot think, analyse, measure, prove, disprove, hypothesize, argue–love, suffer, exult, despair, or experience a wordless rapture of mystical faith–without a flow of TIME through our flesh. So we are not objects , but processes. Our names are not nouns, but verbs. Our existence does not precede time or postdate time–we personify TIME.

Hardware has no value judgments. Hardware has no faith and convictions. Hardware is not moral actor. Hardware is our method for engaging with the grain of the material. We human beings have never done that with genuine efficency and elegance. We are still learning. Now there are over six billion of us, and the consequences of past misbehavior with hardware are all around us. To understand hardware, we need to understand hardware's engagement with TIME. Hardware is prehistoric. Hardware is prehuman. Technology is older than people. In the long and intimate relationship between humans and objects, objects are the senior partner. Tools are probably older than speech. We humans are what tools made of us. The human body, human perception, human intelligence, they are all the outcomes of two million years of hominids interacting with hardware.