Technology That Speeds Up Time

Every day, thousands of notifications, short videos, accelerated content... Could the technologies we invented to save time actually be stealing moments from us?Studies show that modern humans touch their phones 2,617 times a day and their attention is interrupted every 7 minutes on average. In an experiment conducted at the University of Virginia, people couldn't tolerate thinking for more than 15 minutes and preferred to give themselves electric shocks. In this age of speed, could our own minds be starting to feel foreign to us?In this section, we explore topics ranging from Hartmut Rosa's theory of social acceleration to Milan Kundera's novel Slowness, from Tarkovsky's aesthetics of slow-moving time to Zen philosophy. And we ask the question:Does speed enrich life, or does it take away its depth?