Slow Technology – The Slow Human

Emotional Life under Slow Communication

Imagine, for a moment, a time when patience and waiting were not extraordinary virtues but the default settings of daily life—expected behaviors, even survival skills. Waiting months on end in a perpetual state of uncertainty was routine, and not knowing was simply part of the human condition. For most of our history—right up until Samuel Morse jolted […]

Guilty as charged! Fast technology is to blame for our unquenchable immediacy

Slow Technology, Slow Thoughts / Stuart

Have you ever wondered how in virtually every sphere of life in the modern age, from transportation to food production and from medicine to farming, slow persists alongside fast? Yet, when fast and slow time meet, fast time wins. For much of modern society, particularly from the mid-20th century onwards, speed and efficiency triumph over

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