index
Ofer, Avner, 134
Ofer, Shira, 106
of scheduling, 77, 78
online shopping, 156, 171, 172
open-source software, 33
Orlikowski, Wanda, 199n28
Ormrod, Susan, 124
Otellini, Paul, 95
pace: of leisure, 73, 74; of life, 1, 13, 14, 16, 43,
50–52; measurement of, 64, 65, 154; of
work, 94–97
parenting, 69, 115, 126
Parkins, Wendy, 176
Parsons, Talcott, 113
performance management systems, 109
performativity, 189n42
personal computers, 91
personality types, 51–52
Petrini, Carlo, 175
Pew Internet survey, 92–93, 109, 140, 155
Pew “Networked Families” survey, 151
politics of time, 27, 63, 129, 167, 170, 184
polychronic time, 105–6
process time, 128
productivity, 91–92
Proust, Marcel, 38, 61
proximate future, 191
punctuality, 39, 41
quality time, 168
race, 54
railway journeys, 38
railway time, 45
Rainie, Lee, 105
Rakow, Lana, 148
refrigerators, 130
restaurants, fast food, 124–25, 176
Rifkin, Jeremy, 39
road bumps, 32, 50
road deaths, 49
roads, 48, 55
Robinson, John, 64, 67, 155
robots, 8, 129, 130–31, 132, 133, 177
Roomba vacuum cleaners, 130
Rosa, Harmut, 15–16, 34
Rose, Emily, 144
rush-hour trafic, 55
Russell, Bertrand, 167
Sahlins, Marshall, vii
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 62
Scharf, Virginia, 54
Scheuerman, William, 13
Schmidt, Eric, 177
Schneider, Barbara, 106
Schor, Juliet, 63, 64, 70, 166–67
science and technology studies (STS), 15, 27–35
search engines, 30, 179
sedentary human body, 50, 55, 56
self-logging wristbands, 13–14
self movement, 165
self-service, 172
Sennett, Richard, 38, 108–9
servants, 113, 115, 125–26
shopping, 71, 114, 118; online, 156, 171, 172 Shove, Elizabeth, 120, 121
showers, 120–21
Simmel, Georg, 7, 38, 48, 50–52, 137
single parents, 7, 66–67
Siri software, 13
Skeggs, Bev, 57, 59
Skidelsky, Robert and Edward, 166
sleep, 26
sleeping policemen, 32, 50
Slow Cities, 174
slow food, 9, 174, 175–76
slow living, 9, 174–76
smart houses, 8, 129–30, 131
smartphones, 2, 91, 141, 169, 171. See also
BlackBerries
SMS, 33, 143, 145, 152
social acceleration, 57
socializing, 75–76
social media. See Facebook; Twitter
social relationships, 8–9
social shaping of technology, 4, 6, 11, 90, 177 Social Shaping of Technology, The, 28, 89
Society for the Deceleration of Time, 174 software, 30, 171, 179–80; open-source, 33 Southerton, Dale, 74, 76, 78–79
speed: aesthetics, 47; allure of, 38–39, 47– 50; automobiles, 47, 49–50 (see also
roads); exclusivity, 57; intoxication of, 49; of machines, 43; nihilism of, 22–27; science of, 14, 22–24; as social progress, 44; of society, 13–14; valorization of, 38, 39; and warfare, 25. See also acceleration speed theory, 14, 22–24
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