n by the competition for markets, resources and spheres of influence. ? Revolution is movement, but movement is not revolution? [18]. A battle for supremacy in the processes of economic concentration, in which the fronts, no longer drawn up along national boundaries and between political systems, are defined by technical standards. A battle in which the power of knowledge is managed as a profitable monopoly of its distribution and dissemination. Bourgeois power is military even more than economic, but it relates most directly to the occult permanence of the state of siege, to the appearance of fortified towns. [11] Gleick traces the evolution of time through technology, ?only in an age of speed, can we stop time?. He reveals how through technlogy time has changed from the second to the millisecond and finally to nanosecond. ?During a nanosecond balls, bats, bullets and droplets are motionless? [6]. The Directorate of Time, devised by the Defense Department, maintains a Master Clock that sends its timely data on the steady movements of "atomic beams in their vaults" to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris. "The result is . . . the exact time -- by definition, by worldwide consensus and decree." All of modern life ticks to that metronome. ?Humanity is now a species with one watch, and this is it?. Gleick argues that before atomic clocks, cell phones, nanosecond computer speeds and telephone redial buttons, our timeliness ware less compulsiv,. We could "spend" time profitably or not. Time passed while we were occupied or idle. "In time," things came to pass and passed away. In "epoch of the nanosecond? we waste time, we gain it and lose it, we kill it, we budget and organize it, we move from "real time" to "virtual" time. And every second, split second, microsecond, we are obsessed with "saving" time. Once we learned what time it was, measurable to the millionth of a nanosecond, we could treat time as a quantity, a ...
