The technology I was thinking of was digital screens. Analog clocks made sense when the best you could do was attach some arrows to some gears on a rotating shaft. Now we can individually toggle lights in a grid containing millions of lights.
> Digital. 1 on microwave less than 99. Where else in world 1 < 99 makes sense? Digital time math crazy.
Everywhere? 1 is always less than 99 everywhere.
I press 1 on my microware. It starts to run for 1 minute.
I press 99 on my microwave. It starts to run for 99 seconds.
1 minute < 99 seconds.