Hugh Brody Maps and Dreams tells of land use mapping with indigenous people in Canada. They lived without time OK, adjusting activities with the length of the day, and their movement around their land by the seasons and the game available.
Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams tells the story, among other things, of the Government school teachers in a far North village who tried to get the children into school between 9 and 4 on weekdays during the summer (24 hour daylight). The children normally went to sleep when they wanted to. The community reaction was to leave the doors of the cabins unlocked and to suggest that the teachers could come and get the children if they wanted them there....
As this is HN, do we think that a significant number of people could adopt this kind of approach to time given distributed education, home working, ubiquitous computing &c? Remember that my Granddad (born 1892 in UK) went from working in the fields by the light of the Sun to punching a clock in a factory, via the First World War.
Hugh Brody Maps and Dreams tells of land use mapping with indigenous people in Canada. They lived without time OK, adjusting activities with the length of the day, and their movement around their land by the seasons and the game available.
Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams tells the story, among other things, of the Government school teachers in a far North village who tried to get the children into school between 9 and 4 on weekdays during the summer (24 hour daylight). The children normally went to sleep when they wanted to. The community reaction was to leave the doors of the cabins unlocked and to suggest that the teachers could come and get the children if they wanted them there....
As this is HN, do we think that a significant number of people could adopt this kind of approach to time given distributed education, home working, ubiquitous computing &c? Remember that my Granddad (born 1892 in UK) went from working in the fields by the light of the Sun to punching a clock in a factory, via the First World War.