This week’s reading is called Finding Time in Digital Age by Judy Wajcman. Judy starts off by contradicting the points Economist Keynes made about how technology would help reduce human work hours of productivity and one could focus on the creative. She says ‘the unparalleled velocity of computerisation, telecommunication and transport which was expected to free human time has paradoxically been accompanied by a growing sense of pressure. It further explains this by pointing out a few of these problems caused to humans such as the distinction between work and leisure, the concept of work rich/time poor and no those with no work. It talks about reformulating work time and work time articulation. The article makes a further point on politics of time that it being cultural by saying that being busy is valorised while having too much time on one’s hand signifies failure – this democratisation would lead to a very different social order.

Judy says that this technological expansion have definitely created a trend towards un-precedented speed and a lot of users personal time does go in figuring out these digital tools to familiarise themselves to this age. Finally Jude says to take things slowly. In a world of constant acceleration slowness should be considered as a life enhancing quality. Though she mentions that we cannot choose between fast and slow, technology and nature. These dualities exist and only acquire meaning in relation to each other.

The article concludes with saying that rather than being pressed by time, we need to figure out how to use this speed acceleration/slowing down relationship to formulate new ideas about how we might leverage these digital infrastructure to our needs be it work or leisure.