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What about “the big now,” though? It’s shorthand for the enhanced and deepened sense of simultaneity - of the world’s massive parallelism - that certain digital artifacts lend us. The most concrete example I can come up with is my experience of Twitter, which, like one of the great NYTE visualizations, though more subtly and expressively, quite clearly reveals the great waves of activity and slumber sweeping over the globe.