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Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
Technological acceleration, which is supposed to produce innovations that give you more free time, does the opposite. Acceleration does not release us from speed but always seeks more speed. Gaining more time through acceleration will demand that time be filled with more actions, not fewer.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
As if to rub it in, some anthropologists tell us that thousands of years ago people had much more time available to them than their hunting, gathering and child-rearing required. Three or four hours of work a day paid the bills, so they had a lot of downtime. Then came agriculture, and eventually industrialization, and somehow these helpful develop... See more
David Cain • Why There’s Never Enough Time
Every tech, in moderation, has made our lives better. But then we couldn’t get enough. In our constant striving for more, we always end up with less and yet we still sign up for even more.
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives
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