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By placing these two poles in a static, non-networked document, the genre allows the reader to experience what philosopher Henri Bergson called durée —a lived, qualitative time where past and future fold into a meaningful now. Of course, not everyone is a believer. Critics—particularly academic historians and pragmatic technologists—have raised sharp objections. The Ancient Future PDF is a DIY narrative repair kit
By J.S. Eliot