Future of Time
Our altered relationship to time is at the very core of contemporary mutations, and the disruption of time has in fact become an obsession for our societies. The result of changes in technology and our new lifestyles, our experience of time is such that it feels fragmented, fleeting, accelerated or multiplied—even though, of course, it can only remain the same. For Stream, the physicist Étienne Klein has investigated the idea of an anthropological rupture before explaining his work in “cleaning up the verbal situation” as regards the notion of time, the changes in our relationship to time, the “chrono-dispersive” society, and the questioning of the notion of progress, and its corollary—our incapacity to project ourselves. Étienne Klein is a physician, philosopher and holds a PhD in philosophy of science. Renowned specialist of the notion of time in physics, he is the director of the Research Laboratory for Material Science at the CEA.
