Speed limits : where time went and why we have so little left /
"We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better? Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technol...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Speed traps
- Addiction to speed
- Invisible hands
- Time counts
- Windows shopping
- Net working
- Inefficient market hypothesis
- Dividing by connecting
- Extreme finance
- Reprogramming life, deprogramming minds
- Meltdowns
- Appendix: Final exams, Spring 1922, Arendtsville High School, Arendtsville, Pennsylvania.
