Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022638084X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 227 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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So many of us take these as unproblematic goods. “More, better, faster. A must-read not only for a range of social scientists and humanists, but for everyone who wants to understand how we have remade time and remade ourselves in digital culture.”. Armed with her analysis of the co-construction of technology, social practice, and our sense of what matters, ‘more, better, faster,’ and our modern culture of time is made problematic, insecure, and interesting. Judith Wajcman’s Pressed for Time—written in elegant, clear, accessible language—will make you take a new look at this kind of thinking
She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Wajcman offers a bracing historical perspective, exploring the commodification of clock time, and how the speed of the industrial age became identified with progress. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that
No Time to lose With the industrial revolution gaining steam John Maynard Keynes felt optimistic enough to declare that in the future we need only work 3 hours a day. The rest of the time we can devote to the pursuit of leisure. Here we are today screaming for work-life balance and ‘quality time’. The advancement in technology is so astounding that Keynes coul. "Don't blame technology," claims author Dr. Stephen S. Bertman If we feel pressed for time, the author argues, it’s not technology’s fault. Instead, she says, it’s the fault of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set. What she fails to appreciate is how much our stress-inducing expectations are shaped by the invasive and addictive technological environment that surrounds us. Wajcman’s ar. More Technology, Less Productivity and Value Jeffrey Swystun Fundamentally I believe that any new technology has historical precedents and antecedents. As well, age-old human behaviour remains the same in interacting with all things new (read Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time that backs me up). Wajcman's primary contention is all of the technology we currently enjoy has sped up our world and increased connectiv