Watching the Numbers Change
June 2nd, 2005 | Published in Culture, Quotes | 1 Comment
[Has it ever struck you as odd that people love to watch numbers (scores) change when they are not even watching the game?]
Unlike play, sport has an existence in our mechanical civilization even in its most abstract possible manifestation: the crowd that does not witness the ball game will huddle around the scoreboard in the metropolis to watch the change of counters.
—Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1934), p. 304
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:34 pm (#)
And many people look at numbers as absolute truth too. That seems a bit strange to me…..