Listen to the chimes of Big Ben stiking midnight at new year, on the stroke of 12 we cheer, embrace and kiss loved ones but when did that actually happen. Well it depends on what device you're listening to. If its over the web or digital radio it could be many seconds in the past; does that matter, what happens to those seconds in between?

Aleks Krotoski mediatates on our urge to converge and how the digital era can throw us in and out of sync with the universe and each other.

Producer: Peter McManus