Sounds like a poetic rendition of the icing that's on a global capitalist cake to me. Owning time, or the illusion thereof, can only come from owning space. Which is owning or controlling real estate. Which comes from garden variety imperialism & colonialism. And if that makes you the Landlord, you still need tenants--which become the creators of product. Who eventually figure out how to buy a piece of land and use it like a piece of time...and return to the Darwinian struggle of empire. I think you just described the last thirty years as a cycle, not a direct line to the future.
FYI, temporal authorship isn’t about space. It’s about sequence. When resolution can be accelerated, the bottleneck is no longer land or logistics — it’s tempo itself.
That’s why I think the analogy to real estate is useful, but also limited. Landlords need tenants. Empires need colonies. Temporal authorship doesn’t. It sets the rhythm that all players, landlords and tenants alike.
So instead of being cyclical — a return to empire — it’s actually a step-change. The cycle collapses into the clock. Time stops being derivative of land, and starts being the primary asset itself.
Sounds like a poetic rendition of the icing that's on a global capitalist cake to me. Owning time, or the illusion thereof, can only come from owning space. Which is owning or controlling real estate. Which comes from garden variety imperialism & colonialism. And if that makes you the Landlord, you still need tenants--which become the creators of product. Who eventually figure out how to buy a piece of land and use it like a piece of time...and return to the Darwinian struggle of empire. I think you just described the last thirty years as a cycle, not a direct line to the future.
FYI, temporal authorship isn’t about space. It’s about sequence. When resolution can be accelerated, the bottleneck is no longer land or logistics — it’s tempo itself.
That’s why I think the analogy to real estate is useful, but also limited. Landlords need tenants. Empires need colonies. Temporal authorship doesn’t. It sets the rhythm that all players, landlords and tenants alike.
So instead of being cyclical — a return to empire — it’s actually a step-change. The cycle collapses into the clock. Time stops being derivative of land, and starts being the primary asset itself.