houses, smart, 8, 129–30, 131
housewifery, ideology of, 115
housework, 8, 68, 81, 113, 116–18, 182; contracting out, 125–26; and gender, 116–18, 167–68
ICTs. See information and communication technologies
immediacy, 9, 52, 58, 173–74
industrialization, 42, 113–14
information age, 18
informational paradigm, 92
information and communication technologies (ICTs), 6, 9, 30; investment in, 91; work-life balance, 138–60; workplace impact, 7–8, 87–109
information overload, 24, 31, 95
innovation, 9, 11, 90, 180, 181
instantaneity, defined, 25
instantaneous time, 19
instrument-centered perspectives, 21–22
Internet, 2, 21, 30–31, 148, 171; as generative technology, 157–58; speed, 18, 45, 58; use, 92–93, 154–55
interruptions at work, 97–103
intimacy, 148–49, 150
inventiveness, 180–81
iPhones, 13
iTime, 173
Japan, 132, 133
juggling, 74, 78, 104
Kan, Man Yee, 117
Kern, Stephen, 43
Keynes, John Maynard, 163, 166, 167
kinkeeping, 148
knowledge workers, 99–102
Kristeva, Julia, 128
labor. See work
Lafargue, Paul, 167
landlines. See telephones
Latour, Bruno, 32, 50
Le Corbusier, 48, 130
leisure time. See free time
Lesnard, Laurent, 77, 78, 127
Leunig, Tim, 53
Licoppe, Christian, 146–47
linear model, 32
linear narratives, 15
Ling, Rich, 145–46, 152
liquid modernity, 56
Livingstone, Sonia, 151
Los Angeles, 54, 55
machine tools, 89–90
MacJobs, 92
mail-order catalogs, 173
Marcuse, Herbert, 178
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 47–48
marriages, 148–49
Marvin, Carolyn, 21–22
Marx, Karl, vii, 17, 40
mass media, 157
mass production, 53
McDonald’s restaurants, 124–25, 175, 176
McJobs, 92
media studies, 187n19, 188n36
metropolitan life. See cities
microcoordination, 144, 146
microwave ovens, 8, 112, 119, 123–24
military technology, 25
Milkie, Melissa, 67
MIT Media Lab, 130, 183
mobile phones, 7, 31, 33, 91, 135, 139–40, 169;
and children, 154; and intimacy, 8; use
patterns, 142–45; at work, 93, 95, 106.
See also smartphones
mobility, sociology of, 56–57
modernity, 45–46, 47; Virilio on, 23
money, 6, 17, 51
monochronic time, 105
Moore’s law, 2, 180
Morgan, David, 142
Morley, David, 57
Morozov, Evgeny, 181
motor cars. See automobiles
motorways. See roads
Mullan, Killian, 126–27
multitasking, 74, 78, 80, 84, 93, 104–7
Mumford, Lewis, 146
Mussolini, Benito, 48
nanotechnology, 23, 24
networked families, 145–50
networked workers, 91–94
Networked Workers survey, 93
network society, 18–22
Noble, David, 89–90
Nowotny, Helga, 1, 40
nursebots, 131–32
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