16. Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Infrastructures of Time: An Introduction to Hardwired Temporalities 9
5. Part I Media Philosophies of Time Patterning
6. 1. The Suspension of Irreversibility: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media 41
7. 2. Time and Technology: The Temporalities of Care 55
8. 3. Problems of Temporality in the Digital Epoch 77
9. 4. Suspending the “Time Domain” : Technological Tempor(e)alities of Media Infrastructures 89
10. Part II Microtimes
11. 5. Infrastructuring Leap Seconds : The Regime of Temporal Plurality in Digitally Networked Media 107
12. 6. Life at the Femtosecond 125
13. 7. Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images 143
14. 8. Intervals of Intervention : Micro- Decisions and the Temporal Autonomy of Self-Driving Cars 157
15. Part III Lifetimes
16. 9. Grounded Speed and the Soft Temporality of Network Infrastructure 177
17. 10. Unruly Bodies of Code in Time 191
18. 11. Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation 205
19. 12. Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch 221
20. Part IV Futures
21. 13. Captured Time: Eye Tracking and the Attention Economy 243
22. 14. Ahead of Time : The Infrastructure of Amazon’s Anticipatory Shipping Method 263
23. 15. Artificial Neural Networks, Postdigital Infrastructures and the Politics of Temporality 279
24. 16. Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development 295
25. Index 309