For most of us, our average day is an experience unlike any other in human history. The world we interact with and engage with is a culmination of millennia of curiosity, probing and discovery. The story of how we got here, the layers of seeking and exploration; that are too often displaced as a triviality of life, is a massive part of the human story.
New Mind is a celebration of that journey; the telling of slivers of that human story. Each composition is a careful telling of a slice of our technological world, exploring not just the “how it works” but the evolution of the why – the series of historical events that made it this way
From New Mind. This video traces the engineering evolution mechanical time keeping and it’s impact on the development modern civilization. EARLY TIME KEEPING • Transitioned from the continuous, uninterrupted flow of sundials and water clocks to discrete, countable mechanical steps. • Early fluid-weight triggers used tipping buckets or water wheels to release a latch and…