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I used to approach my weekends as a kind of challenge to squeeze in as many activities as 48 hours could contain. When, inevitably, a little sit-down between personal improvement tasks turned into a big sit-down, I berated myself. As time expert Ruth Ogden writes, this may well have been because technology is changing the way we think of free time.
When we sit on the train or bus, instead of simply staring out the window, many of us pull out our phones and start tackling the to do list. Her fascinating article explains why technology is contributing to a denser form of life. These days I embrace free gaps in my schedule as time to quietly sip a cup of tea – and feel much better for it.
We may not have that much time left to enjoy life as we currently know it if this explanation of how close major climate change tipping points are is anything to go by. Elon Musk seems to agree that the apocalypse is coming, judging by the design for the new bulletproof, superfast Tesla.
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Ruth Ogden, Liverpool John Moores University; Joanna Witowska, The Maria Grzegorzewska University ; Vanda Černohorská, Czech Academy of Sciences
Technology is changing our perception of what time is for.
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