Perceptions of time do change with the emergence of new ideas and new inventions, but this always occurs in the context of preexisting ideas, habits, material apparatuses, and cultural practices. Understanding how time has been reshaped in the past may help us to become more alert to some of the profound changes in time consciousness that are still under way in our own times. As we will see in the following chapter, the idea of high-speed society is not as novel as we are led to believe.
Hig h-Speed Society
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