Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022638084X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 227 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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No Time to lose Hande Z 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 . "Don't blame technology," claims author 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 en. More Technology, Less Productivity and Value 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 enjo
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. So many of us take these as unproblematic goods. Judith Wajcman’s Pressed for Time—written in elegant, clear, accessible language—will make you take a new look at this kind of thinking. “More, better, faster
Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. Indeed, being busy and having action-packed lives has become valorized by our productivity driven culture. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free to do other things? Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier? In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. Wajcman offers a bracing historical perspective, exploring the commodification of clock time, and how the speed of the industrial age became identified with progress. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and