Ying Ying Chung

“With AI technology, how do we distinguish necessary effort from unnecessary friction?” This question has been looping in my mind ever since the panel last week. At first, it felt like a technical inquiry — a practical concern about workflow and tool use. But as I began to think more deeply about time, something shifted. The question wasn’t just about effort — it was about temporality.

Identifying the Core Metaphor It’s fascinating to examine metaphor in the context of “digitized time,” especially when looking at the time display on phones. The act of translating time into measurable numbers is already deeply metaphorical. Time, in its essence, isn’t a fixed or objective thing — it’s something felt, experienced, and perceived differently by everyone. The digitized format we now interact with every day simplifies this fluid, emotional experience into a uniform string of numbers.

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