1. High-Speed Society: Is the Pace of Life Accelerating?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Tools for Time 1
6. 1. High-Speed Society: Is the Pace of Life Accelerating? 13
7. 2. Time and Motion: Machines and the Making of Modernity 37
8. 3. The Time-Pressure Paradox 61
9. 4. Working with Constant Connectivity 87
10. 5. Doing Domestic Time 111
11. 6. Time to Talk: Intimacy through Technology 137
12. 7. Finding Time in a Digital Age 163
13. Notes 185
14. Index 211