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Wrinkles in Time: A Swiss watchmaker tries to reset the world’s clocks
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 41–46.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Adam Jasper Ironically, Swatches’ original proposal was by no means entirely a bad idea. The idea of a simultaneous and metric global time is worthy of Buckminster Fuller: It is both a crank suggestion and a visionary one that could do much to sharpen our somewhat vague sense of what...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2018
...) architectural projects of mop-topped former London mayor Boris Johnson, while from Zurich, Adam Jasper examines Swatch’s short-lived effort to eliminate time zones. In Egypt, Mona Abo-Issa joins the bandwagons of energetic fans following around the country’s retired war heroes, and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks...
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Hedging Disaster
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 120–129.
Published: 01 December 2014
... interrupted by a furtive Chinese salesman with a large book of fabric swatches that he thrust eagerly into my father-in-law’s face. He glanced casually at them, then waved off the salesman. “Why?” I asked. “Communist Chinese,” he sniffed, “You can’t count on when the goods will ever show up.” The moment China...
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