Time in a cut. Acceleration of life with digital capitalism. Weissman J.

Most of us complain that there are not enough hours in the day, and our mailboxes are full of emails. This is a common perception that life is faster than before, is entrenched in our culture, and the blame for this is assigned to smartphones and the Internet. But this is not the main goal of the smartphone - to give us such quick access to people and information so that we have free time for other things? Shouldn't technology make our life easier?

In his book “Time in a Revert”, Judy Weissman explains why we perceive our experience of interacting with digital technologies as inexorable acceleration of everyday life, and also claims that we are not simple hostages of communication devices, but a feeling, That we always need to rush somewhere is a consequence of priorities and parameters that we set ourselves, and not cars that help us install them. The author explores how various groups in modern societies used time in different ways, and shows how changes in employment, family organization and raising children affect the perception of time.

In 2017, the book was awarded the award named after Ludwig Flex, awarded by the Society of Social Research of Science.