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Ask HN: Will We Rethink Calendars?

7 points kamphey | 2 comments | 16 May 25 10:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.447s | source

In the past the whole world used different calendars and ways to represent time. Currently a few religions still have alternative cale dars. In the near future do you think calendars will be vastly different than now?
1. throwaway519 ◴[16 May 25 15:51 UTC] No.44006887[source]▶
'Day' as a subscription service.

If you don't pay, you will not get the new day.

It'll be crept in through a Total Recall style augmented sleep where a week long holiday seems teally only takes a night's sleep.

When normalised, leisure time will becme a subscription service.

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2. paulcole ◴[18 May 25 05:53 UTC] No.44019264[source]▶
This was the plot of the Justin Timberlake film In Time.

Everybody stops aging and time becomes a currency. Run out of it and you die.

Rich people drive at walking speed for safety because they can still die in car crashes.