Index
acceleration, 6–7, 13–35, 39, 40, 82, 163–64; aesthetics, 47. See also speed
acceleration society, definitions, 15–16
actor-network theory, 32
Adam, Barbara, 25, 40, 128, 163
aesthetics, 47, 49
afective computing, 132
Agger, Ben, 173
air transport, 55, 57
Alexander, Jennifer Karns, 178–79
Amazon, 172–73
answering machines, 171–72
Apple, 172, 181
architecture, 48
automobiles, 38, 48, 53–56, 180–81; assembly line, 53, 88, 89; self-driving/driverless, 178, 181; speed, 47, 49–50 (see also roads); and women, 53–54, 114
autonomy paradox, 103
avant-garde, 48
baby bottles, 29–30
Bales, Robert, 103
Ballard, J. G., 50
baths, 120–21
Bauman, Zygmunt, 56, 83
Beck, Ulrich, 59, 108
Berman, Marshal, 47
Bianchi, Suzanne, 67
bicycles, 55, 56, 182
Big Data, 172, 178
BlackBerries, 103, 137, 141
Bluedorn, Allen, 41, 106
Boltanski, Luc, 87
Bryson, Valerie, 129
busyness, 52, 61, 70–73, 83, 155; as cultural orientation, 72 cabling, 3
Carey, James, 45, 46
caring, 128, 129, 131–32. See also child care cars. See automobiles
Castells, Manuel, 18–19, 21, 24, 92
cell phones. See mobile phones
Chang, Ha-Joon, 111
change, technological, 4, 21, 90
Chaplin, Charlie, 43
Chesley, Noelle, 106, 141
Chiapello, Eve, 87
child care, 81–82, 118, 126–27; and fathers, 69, 117, 127
children: and mobile phones, 154; parents time with, 63, 67–68, 69
China, 56, 182
cities, 6, 7, 38, 50–53, 139; and automobiles, 48, 54
CityHome, 130
clocks, vii, 39, 40, 41, 42; Mumford on, 146; tyranny of, 2
clock time, 37, 42–43, 89; and labor, 43 Cockburn, Cynthia, 124
Cohen, Jared, 177
commodity markets, 46
communal households, 116
computing, afective, 132
connectivity, 7, 10, 26
211