Why old fashioned timepieces are making a comeback
telegraph.co.ukIn the office recently, I was discussing the weather with a colleague – let’s call them Gordon Byron – when they decided to end speculation about whether it might be raining by melodramatically showing me their watch.
On the face was a picture of a sun. ‘See! It’s not raining,’ Gordon cried. It was then I realised we were standing about 270cm from a wall of windows, and hadn’t thought to look through them once.It used to be that if you weren’t wearing your watch, you basically had to stare at the sun to work out the hour.
Then smartphones arrived, and suddenly we all had the time, all of the time. Was that a clock in our pockets, or were we just pleased to see you?
It was a clock, definitely. It was also a laptop, and a calculator, and a step-counter, and a wallet, and pretty much everything else.Next, all that computing power moved to our wrists, and ‘smartwatches’ started to govern us.
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