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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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17 Jun 2004 03:11:30 PM |
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OT: The beat of a different drum |
The beat of a different drum
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2745438
Jun 10th 2004
From The Economist print edition
TECHNOLOGY is determined to make things happen faster and faster: the
mobile phone means we don't need to waste time just walking—we can
talk as we walk. And then there is texting, for those who find talking
too slow. At the same time (literally, if we want) the internet allows
us to send as many messages in an hour as our fathers could have sent
in a month; more and more cars are engineered to cruise comfortably at
over 100mph; and meals can be microwaved in a moment. Only the ending
of supersonic passenger flight last year suggests that this process
may, in some respects at least, be reversible.
In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the
Cult of Speed
By Carl Honoré
HarperSanFrancisco; 320 pages; $24.95.
Orion; £16.99
Carl Honoré
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