Time, the most precious thing of all
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One of the most striking changes in recent years has been the dramatic acceleration of our lives. This shift began when mobility technology compressed space, and it has now reached a new...
Many of us work, drive, talk, think and eat too quickly. Instead of reading, we tend to skim, scroll or...
Technological accelerationism – a philosophy of urgency that has for some time prevailed in Silicon Valley –...
In a celebrated lecture delivered in Madrid in 1930, the eminent economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that...
A reduction in working hours is not merely a labour demand; it is an urban planning tool that ought to play a...
Barcelona was the first city in Spain to establish a time policy department and now leads the way in Europe...
Time associated with work – whether paid or unpaid – is a central aspect of how people organise their lives...
In our lives, we have to juggle two different kinds of time: the productive system’s clock time and the time...
The advancement of a civilisation can be measured by its ability to free up time. Today, however, precarity...
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