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youve got enough constraints that you can understand that world.

(Was it this that Salvador Dalí wanted to invoke when he placed so many of his melting clocks on trees in his paintings?) I was tired of speed.Sumana Roy is associate professor of English and creative writing at Ashoka University in Haryana.

The trees they planted in the gated communities annoyed them—they would grow at their natural pace.What exactly was tree time then? I wandered aimlessly through philosophical discussions on time until it came to me one night.My amorphous fancies about trees began to coalesce when I entered middle age and began to weigh the benefits of a freelancers life against that of a salaried professional.

This timbre of nervous energy that had turned the world into an apocalypse movie was the resident spirit of the newsroom—we were all doomed.generated a claustrophobia in me that is difficult to explain—I am daughter to a man who is a news junkie.

but the whole manner of our timekeeping begins to look silly when one asks a tree the question that inaugurates application forms and conversations: When is your birthday? I had taken information about my birthday off Facebook.

I realized that all my flaws—and this I now discover I share with many others—came from my failure to be a good slave to timethe resulting fear and resentment prevent us from considering the better option within our grasp: harnessing robots as partners.

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they have helped us do things we couldnt accomplish on our own -- and all without being judged on whether their intelligence matched our own.As robots increasingly become part of our lives as devices.