The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time
The 2010s warped how Americans experience time by collapsing schedules, accelerating cultural churn, and making moments perpetually available through phones and platforms. Katherine Miller traces how innovations — from the rise of [[Instagram]] and algorithmic feeds on [[Twitter]] and [[Facebook]] to streaming binges on [[Netflix]] and the ubiquity of [[smartphones]] and devices like the [[Apple Watch]] — dissolved traditional rhythms of television, news, and politics. The decade’s nonstop alerts, viral loops, and ephemeral stories magnified political theater, especially around [[Donald Trump]], and made memory and narrative feel elastic. Cultural backlashes — quitting apps, valuing vinyl or analog watches — surface as attempts to reclaim linear time, but the article argues the entanglement of phone life and public life has permanently bent how we perceive past, present, and future.