The digital sceptics also argue that social media is an animal with a tiny attention span – ie, it is well-suited to amplifying the new, but not much good at the dogged business of complexity or gradual, patient concentration on an issue.
Though Rovelli the man also acknowledges that the stuff of humanity is love, and fear, and desire, and passion: all made meaningful by our brief lives; our tiny span of allotted time.
The real treat of Roulette is the performance space itself: an intimate gem of an old ballroom/theater, a tiny balcony spanning the perimeter, anchored to the ceiling by skinny, frail looking pipes.
But after a couple of miles we reached a tiny wooden bridge which spanned the first stirrings of the newborn stream.
Other inspirations were the six-inch Lilliputians in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire's short story, "Micromégas" with its cast of huge and miniature peoples, and E. T. A. Hoffmann's hallucinatory, erotic tale "Meister Floh" in which a tiny lady a span in height torments the hero.
It said, "Give it up!" Gate of Heaven contains an abundance of sheltering oak and pine trees, stone pillars, iron gates, a Gothic bridge spanning a tiny lake and a modernistic circular chapel with floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows.
So how exactly does Universal Studios Florida pull off this park-wide transformation in such a teeny tiny time span?
But that year, Cynthia Kenyon, a biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, published a study showing how manipulating a single gene, daf2, could double the life span of a tiny roundworm.
In just six years it has ballooned from a tiny start up to a £50bn company spanning 450 cities across 70 countries.
Go through Ramble Arch and head toward the Lake, where you will find one of the tiniest spans in New York, the rustic GILL BRIDGE, 15 feet across, its balustrades made of tree branches.
