The generation grabbing onto this music is one of the first generations growing up without knowing a time before cellphones or the Internet or pure connectivity.
By the time they reach maturity, they will number nearly 80m, the biggest generation in North American history.They are also the "net generation", the first to grow up never knowing a time before computers, and not much time before the Internet.
But for any time after the first instant (if there was one), knowing what time it is involves knowing the temporal distance between the present time and some other time: knowing that it is noon, April 16 , 2002 implies knowing a relation between that time and date and the date traditionally assigned to the birth of Christ.
As an author, she finds it interesting "how the nobility interacts with the servants, how the up-and-coming common man is looked down upon, knowing that a time will come when the aristocracy will lose some of its wonder".
Young people come in all the time knowing a bunch of fancy math.
"She's become particularly great at knowing a year ahead of time what's going to be the next year's buzz band," said Jackie Nalpant, a booking agent at Paradigm, a talent agency whose acts on this year's lineup include Mr. Newman, the Cold War Kids and Delta Spirit.
"I mean maybe someone more perceptive than I would have seen it, but I never saw that at the time, nor – knowing a lot of the people who know him very well – did they.
Time was, knowing a Murdoch was a sort of golden ticket.
By Lauren Collins April 26, 2012 Time was, knowing a Murdoch was a sort of golden ticket.
Trust comes in knowing a person well and over time, an aspect of medical care that's lost when insurance plans change and further damaged by a breed of younger physicians who, with a keen instinct for self-preservation, may sensibly choose to limit the hours they work rather than quit the field entirely.
It does mean touching your boyfriend in a knowing way from time to time, giving him seductive smiles, and mentioning something that makes him want to get private.
