It’s not every day that you see a post online that (inadvertently) has something to do with the title of this blog.  But that happened a couple of days ago over at Seth Godin’s blog.  Here’s how his post called “Across and within” starts:

Media theory pioneer Harold Innis saw it 70 years ago:

Some cultures and ideas are built to spread across SPACE.

And some spread across TIME.

It’s the tension between space and time that lead to the rise and fall of societies and cultures, and they’re worth understanding.

It’s an interesting post, one that I can follow for the most part.  My favorite snippet, apart from the opening lines is this:

Systems under stress expose themselves, and when you feel the stress, it’s worth looking for the juxtapositions that are causing it. In this case, it’s worth asking whether the idea that’s changing things was built to last or built to spread.

That’s a great diagnostic tool, one that could definitely lead to some interesting conversations.