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.