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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our…

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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a…
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered…
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…

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Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. — Pieter Geyl
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,… — Douglas Rushkoff
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of… — Marshall McLuhan
As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product.… — Marcus Buckingham
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy… — Paul Hawken
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard… — Christopher McDougall
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration. — Frederick Lenz
The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert… — Mary Barnett Gilson
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. — Havelock Ellis
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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