' “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote James #Gleick in his 1999 book Faster. Such compression characterized, as well, the preceding century. ”... information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. #speed with which we’re presented with new information and stimuli...our interactions with others.

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicolasCarr #JamesGleick #activityrhythm #workrhythm

"Especially relevant to present-day problems is the.. contention that industrial organisation, by its very nature, gives rise to oligarchy or dictatorship.. tending to destroy democracy.. and to impose upon the individual pressures and restraints that prevent his full life as a human being.. leading to trivial pursuits and passivity.. collective #rage and #hysteria."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284
#BertrandRussel #IndustrialCivilization #HumanScale #HumanPace #workrhythm #activityrhythm

Reading #DavidGraeber in#bullshitjobs "concerning the clash between the morality of time and natural work rhythms, and the resentment it creates" made #NicolasCarr come to mind: " Our social milieu, too, influences the way we experience time. Studies suggest, write Droit-Volet and Gill, “that individuals match their time with that of others.” The “ #activityrhythm” of those around us alters our own perception of the passing of time."
- https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#LewisMumford on #workrhythm too