3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and MoneyAfter Speech and Visual Art, Writing Marked a Major Watershed in Information Technology; The Clock was Introduced to Regulate Prayer Times; What Does it Regulate Now?; Money Belongs to the Same Family of Information Technologies as Writing and Clocks; Notation Does the Same Kind of Work As Writing, Numbers, Clocks and Money; Society Becomes Increasingly Abstract; Linear Time is Not Part of the Problem; 4 Speed; Our History is the History of Acceleration; Speed is An Addictive Drug; Speed Leads to Simplification; Speed Creates Assembly Line Effects. 8 The Pleasures of Slow TimeSources; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; 3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and Money; 4 Speed; 5 Exponential Growth; 6 Stacking; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; 8 The Pleasures of Slow Time; Index. A study of the universal dilemma of the scarcity of time Contemporary Culture Runs at Full Speed Without Moving an InchStacking Replaces Internal Development; The Law of Diminishing Returns Strikes with a Vengeance; Information Lint Destroys Continuity; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; An Accelerated Professional Life Offers Flexibility and Removes Security; The Distinction Between Work and Leisure is Erased; Family Life is By Nature Slow and Fits the Current Era Badly; The Cult of Youth is Caused By the Tyranny of the Moment; Consumption is Stacked, and Coherence Disappears; Does the Information Revolution Actually Increase Efficiency? Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: Mind the Gap!; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; The Twenty-First Century Began in 1991; The Internet is a Template for the Twenty-First Century; In Information Society, Even the Pigs are it Compatible; In Information Society, Freedom from Information is a Scarce Resource; Less is More; In Information Society, the Gaps are Being Filled with Fast Time; No Technological Changes Turn Out as Anticipated; In the Twenty-First Century, Freedom and Vulnerability are Synonyms; New Tensions Supplement the Old Ones. Speed Leads to a Loss of PrecisionSpeed Demands Space; Speed is Contagious; Gains and Losses Tend to Equal Each Other Out; Technological Change Leads To Unpredicted Side-Effects; 5 Exponential Growth; Exponential Growth is Even and May Seem Undramatic for a Long Time; Exponential Growth Creates Scarcity of Space; Side-Effects Become Dominant; There is a Growing Amount of Everything; The Growth Rates in Cyberspace Surpass Everything Else; Time Goes Towards Zero; 6 Stacking; The Moment Precludes Development; Filters Against Fragmentation do not Remove Fragmentation; Pieces Replace Totalities. | 
