{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","uuid":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","normalized_title":"pressedfortimetheaccelerationoflifeindigitalcapitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","isbns":["9780226196473","9780226196503"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":228,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Pressed%20for%20Time%20The%20Acceleration%20of%20Life%20in%20Digital%20Capitalism","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/search"},"page":{"printed_page":181,"pdf_page":193,"physical_index":193,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"b88a0f2693d917016afa020b88dd963d9621ac2e970584f88da0ffc3c144ab51"},"chapter":"Pressed for Time","content":"My point here is not about the predisposition of individual engineers so much as the institutional culture they inhabit. Much technoscientific innovation originates in either the military or in corporate business environments, where the expertise and ingenuity that is valued is directed toward tackling certain kinds of soluble problems.\n\nTake a radical innovation for saving time, such as Google’s driverless car. That a car can drive itself without crashing is a remarkable achievement of mapping software. It is economical with time, in that you can get on with work while being driven and don’t need to employ a chauffeur to achieve this eficiency. However, as Evgeny Morozov rightly points out, there may be unintended consequences: “Would self-driving cars result in inferior public transport as more people took up driving? Would it lead to even greater suburban sprawl as, now they no longer had to drive, people could do email during their commute and thus would tolerate spending more time in the car?”37 One might add that little thought has been given to gendered patterns of travel, the intricate map of itineraries that thread through the daily lives of mothers. Car travel is not wholly instrumental. It may be an important time and space for parentchild relationships, such as on the daily school run. As the driverless car becomes more reliable, parents will surely succumb to the temptation to send their children of in it while they get on with other tasks.\n\nBut in relation to saving time, the self-driving car presents a narrow model of change, even in terms of transport. The car is more than a machine for mobility, it is a sociotechnical system that locks people into certain social habits and practices. Shifting these requires innovating in the economic, political, and social arrangements that embed them. In fact, cars are in decline in the West, and travel activity has reached a plateau. Many forecast alternative scenarios of electric cars based not on individual ownership but on access.38 They cite new vehicle-sharing systems, the increasing interest of car manufacturers in experimenting with pay-as-you-go schemes, and the mass development of electric bikes in China. What is at stake here is commuting time. But perhaps long distance travel may become less necessary with hypermobile network communications while refinements to less sophisticated technologies, such as the bicycle, increase their appeal. In other words, a more imaginative combination of old and new technologies together with diferent ownership arrangements might release more time than automating the car.\n\nFinding Time in a D igi tal Age\n\n181","previous_page":180,"next_page":182}