The Timeless Odyssey

Digital Dimensions


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In this episode, we explore how the rise of the internet, smartphones, and virtual reality reshaped humanity's experience of time. The digital age did not simply accelerate communication — it fractured time itself. Online, the past never truly fades; memories can be revived instantly, and every photo, message, or moment can be replayed endlessly.

Smartphones turned time into constant interruption, dividing our days into notifications and glances at glowing screens. Virtual reality went further, allowing time to be stretched, paused, or rewritten entirely. Technology pioneers like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg did more than build tools — they engineered time machines in digital form, allowing us to preserve, alter, or escape time at will.

Yet this power comes with a cost: while we can relive everything, many of us forget how to be fully present. The episode concludes with a question — in the digital age, are we controlling time, or is time controlling us?

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The Timeless OdysseyBy Jodie Flett