Thanks to such admi nistration of duration and of t h e ri me needed, Ie temps q u 'i l faut, t o act consci entiously and no t j u st i nteract with telecommunication tools, the ecology of the weather, Ie temps qu 'il fait, wou l d take on a ' natu ral ' i ntell igence rhar' s currently in the process of being discrimi nated against , as though it were o urclassed by the fears of the ' artificial ' intell igence of computer programs and handy software that can do anyth ing, and soon, undo anything . . .
S uch a great mi nistry of Times M anagement would manage the vital rhythms of the weather and not j ust the environment; it would be a ministry o f Space Management, overseeing a space that is now exh au sted not o nly in irs b iodiversity b ur also i n irs ch rono-d iversi ty, with seaso nal sh i fts in cl i m ate being erased, as well as in i ts geo-diversity, with the diferences in and extent of co untry landscapes being similarly erased. For, the pollution of time distances now completes the pollution of substances, water, air, fauna and flora; and the current domination o f the real time of exchanges over the real space of the continents ends, as we see, in i n e rtia . M o re precisely, it ends in the 'moment of i nertia' o f the interactive CO N N ECTION (LIEN), an instant inertia that will shortly take over from the 'fixed-property i nertia' of PLAC ES (LIEUX) in a sedentariness that, all the same, goes b ack all the way to ancient t i mes.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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