The inaugural issue of Time & Society emerged at a historical interstice. A new millennium was on the horizon, the rate of technological obsolescence would soon grow exponentially, and the pace of global, digital communication would be upended as more and more people gained access to something novel called the World Wide Web. These developments tied to culture, technology, and communication were also central to changing norms around the production of work, community, and knowledge—three constitutive elements of a field of study. Therefore, in being invited to reflect on the state of time studies today—where it has been, what it has been missing, where the challenges lie, and where opportunities reside—I consider how societal changes that arose in this liminal space have shaped its journey. I hasten to point out that 30 years is still a beginning for most institutional journeys and that any field which can be measured in decades is still in its infancy.

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跨学科需要时间

时间与社会创刊号出现在历史的缝隙中。新的千年即将来临，技术过时的速度将很快呈指数级增长，随着越来越多的人获得称为万维网的新奇事物，全球数字通信的步伐将被颠覆。这些与文化、技术和交流相关的发展对于改变围绕工作生产、社区和知识——一个研究领域的三个构成要素——的规范也至关重要。因此，在被邀请反思当今时间研究的状态时——它在哪里，它缺失了什么，挑战在哪里，机遇在哪里——我考虑了在这个临界空间中出现的社会变化是如何塑造它的旅行。