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title: "Societal Time Literacy"
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# Societal Time Literacy

> A working definition written for this wiki from the reading notes; not Antikythera's own wording. From Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/terms/societal-time-literacy), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work.

Vincent Ialenti's term (*Deep Time Reckoning*, 2020), taken up by Chronoseed as its normative frame: the deliberate expansion of human intellectual horizons forward and backward across time, via deep-time responsibility, the history of ideas, long-run institutional planning and parallel simulation of events. Prescriptive where Moynihan's **temporal orientation** [J] is descriptive — one asks where a civilization *thinks* "now" sits, the other says it should learn to think further in both directions. The paper's evidence for its urgency is that transmitting a one-line nuclear warning across 241,000 years has taken forty years, a dedicated field (nuclear semiotics), and no settled answer.

## Appears in

- [Chronoseed: A Generative AI Time Capsule](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/coginfra/chronoseed) (2025-05-10)
- [Existential Technologies](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/existentialtech) (2025-05-10)
- [The History of Now](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/historyofnow) (2025-05-10)

_Glossary generated 2026-09-06._