I thought about temporal things as I took the four-and-a-half-hour train to the Edinburgh international book festival. Can we possibly convince ourselves, Aesop-like, that faster isn’t always better or more productive? Are we somehow single-minded enough to believe that the new broadband offer won’t tempt us with faster download speeds? Someone asked, with noble optimism, whether we couldn’t just go back to living by the rising and setting of the sun. At the end I was asked whether I’d been able to recalibrate my own life to a slower pace since I’d first begun writing about acceleration.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2017 09:00 UTC