Future Time

March, 1999

In less than a year, we're all going to have to adjust our mental clocks, so it's appropriate to think about time—and timepieces. Looking at the watches at left, you'll see but a few traces of the digital age. There's a reason the watch of the future looks like it could fit over your father's wrist. Digital readouts give a linear interpretation of time—the kind of thinking that gave us Y2K. Round faces, with their circular depiction of time, require a mature understanding of the fourth dimension...