Index

‘abbreviated thinking’, 184

‘academic capitalism’, 141

accelerated change

of earlier generations, 16, 75–6, 185–6, 186–8

see also ‘social acceleration’; speed and acceleration

access to digital technologies

digital divide, 59–61, 227

NII in US, 80–1, 84

technology as panacea, 217

UK Online, 60–1

urbanization and slum dwellers, 132

accumulation, see capital

accumulation; flexible

accumulation

Adorno, Theodor, 184, 228–9

Aglietta, Michel, 43, 46, 52

AIDS research and ‘good speed’, 169

air transport, 109–10

anti-globalization movements, 206–7, 236

anxiety and social acceleration, 172–6

Apple Corporation, 72, 162

Arthur, Charles, 156

Aspray, William, 81–2

assembly-line process, see Fordism

automation and employment practices, 48–52

avatars, 17–18, 145

‘bad speed’, 11, 96–7, 159, 169–80

‘Baghdad Blogger’, 210

Barbrook, Richard, 84

Barthelme, Donald, 69

Baudrillard, Jean, 205

Beard, George Miller, 175

Beck, Ulrich, 174

Beck-Gernsheim, Elizabeth, 174

Bell, Daniel, 57–8, 74, 114, 178, 191, 218

post-industrial society, 23–4, 52–5

Benjamin, Walter, 229

Bentham, Jeremy, 63–4

Bertman, Stephen, 170, 171, 175

bioinformatics, 168, 169

‘bits with atoms’ approach, 89, 90–2

Blackburn, Robin, 28

Blackwater Corporation, 190–1

blogs and blogging, 119, 207–15, 224–5

of politicians, 203, 204

self-referencing nature of, 211, 212, 214, 215

Bohrmann, David, 205

Borsook, Paulina, 82

Bourdieu, Pierre, 235

Boyer, Robert, 29, 43

‘brain-as-computer’ view, 77–8

Brenner, Robert, 107

Brin, Sergey, 191, 194

broadband, 225

Brown, Gordon, 192

Brown, John Seely, 3–4

browsers, 225

Burma: Internet censorship, 117–18, 119

Bush, George W., 192

business

CEOs and pressure of time, 179–80, 186

and computerization, 49–50

digital capitalism critique, 99–104

and global marketplace, 123–5

Google power, 191–7

inefficiency and ICT systems, 106, 180

Internet ‘change agents’, 82–7

and literacy, 116

MIT Media Lab sponsorship, 89–90

and ‘need for speed’, 162, 179–80, 223

and politics in information society, 95–6, 196–7

and time–space compression, 112–14, 166

value of knowledge, 29

‘weightless’ businesses, 4–5, 111, 162–3, 166

see also capitalism; computer games industry

business cycles, 41

Cairncross, Frances, 112–20, 133

‘calm technologies’, 4

Cameron, Andy, 84

Campbell-Kelly, Martin, 81–2

capital accumulation

and expansion, 38–9, 43–4, 200

over-accumulation problem, 43–5

capitalism

control and power through technology, 61–6

and democracy, 200–1

digital capitalism critique, 99–104

expansion and consumption

and environment, 127–30, 133–4

and global warming, 216

inefficiency and wastefulness, 106–7, 180

mode of production and speed, 32–46, 48–52, 54–5

and ‘need for speed’, 36–8, 161, 162, 166, 223

and network structures, 94–5

science and technology in service of, 122–3

and social democracy, 236

systemization, 38–46

and time–space compression, 112–20, 121–2

see also commodification; ‘friction-free capitalism’

‘casino capitalism’, 30

Castells, Manuel, 23, 24–5, 59–60, 93–9, 131–2, 156, 216, 233

censorship, 65, 117–18, 119, 194–6, 209

Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), 90–2

Center for the Internet and

Society (CIS), 148–9

CEOs and pressure of time, 179–80, 186

change

business view, 113–14

and earlier generations, 16, 75–6, 185–6, 186–7

‘keeping up’ with, 170

‘change agents’, 82–7

China

and computer games, 8, 18–19

and Internet censorship, 65, 194–6, 209

neoliberal growth model, 127–30, 131

choice and information society, 19–20

Chomsky, Noam, 67, 103

circulation of capital and speed, 37–8

civil society, 98–9, 225

global civil society, 229

climate change, 128

Clinton, Bill, 81, 168, 201

Clinton, Hillary, 204–5

clock technology and construction of time, x, 161–2

CNN and ‘YouTube Debates’, 204–5

code and decommodification, 146–9

cognitive psychology

and information overload, 176–80

information processing and Internet, 181–5

Cold War and computer science, ix, 1, 47–8, 218

colonization and commodification, 137

‘Colorado Experiment’, 214

command and control systems in US military, 48

commodification, 62–3, 135–58, 226

of culture, 137, 138–42

‘culture of commodification’, 137, 142–6

decommodification, 146–58

definition, 136

and digital capitalism critique, 103–4

of education, 56, 140–1

of information, 58–9, 192–3

of knowledge, 29, 55–7, 115

of power, 191

‘commons’, 149, 150, 154–5

communism, 35, 232

‘communities of interest’, 152, 156

competition

‘academic capitalism’, 141

free market and progressive improvement, 35–6

and instability, 127

and ‘need for speed’, 37, 162, 180, 223

‘complete information’ and Internet, 71–2

computer: as metaphor, 77–8, 79–80

computer code and decommodification, 146–9

computer games industry, 7–8, 143–4

computer gaming culture

and commodification, 18, 142–6

online gaming community, 8, 17–19, 144–6

computer science

development of computerization, 3–4, 4–5, 46–52

increases in processing speed, 159–61, 167–9

see also computerization

computer–human interaction (CHI), see human–computer interaction (HCI)

computerization

development of, 3–4, 4–5, 46–52

and economic crises, 45–6

intellectual responses to, xii, 52–66, 92–108

and New Economy, 75–108

and social transformation, 24

consumption and environmental impact, 126–30, 133–4

contextual knowledge, 57

control, 17

capitalism and control through technology, 61–6

and politics, 188–9, 190–223

lack of control, 66, 221–2, 223

see also power relations

cookies, 64–5

Copeland, Douglas, 143

‘copyleft’ system, 147

copyright and ‘fair use’ laws, 149

counter-culture ideology and Google, 194

‘creative commons’, 149, 150, 154–5

creativity and decommodification, 146–58

‘credit crunch’, 125–6

critical thinking: lack of time for, 11–12, 183–5, 220–1

‘cult of information’, 69–70, 74

culture

commodification of, 137, 138–42

and ‘good speed’, 167

‘culture of commodification’, 137, 138–58

Cunningham, Ward, 150

cyberspace, 226

Daily me view of media, 211–12

dark fibre, 106, 226

‘data smog’, 115–16

‘data trash’, 202

Davis, Mike, 130–1

de Sola Pool, Ithiel, 76

de Zengotita, Thomas, 19–20, 21–2, 171, 175

decentralization, 62

decision-making and pressure of time, 177, 180

decommodification, 146–58

DeLisi, Charles, 169

Dell Computers, 148, 154

democracy

and blogging, 214

and capitalism, 200–1

and ICTs, 27, 117–20, 201, 204–5

liberal democracy, 15, 39, 199, 200

see also liberal democracy

Denise, Malcolm, 49

Destutt de Tracy, Count Antoine, 230–1

Deutsche Bank, 126

developing countries, 130–3, 188

dialectical materialism, 227

dialectical/dialectics, 226–7

digital capitalism critique, 99–104

digital convergence, 102

digital divide, 59–61, 227

‘distributed computing’, 3

‘division of labour’, 33, 34

dot-com bubble, 72, 101–2, 227–8

Drucker, Peter, 26–30, 75, 76–7, 114

Dyson, Esther, 82–4, 85, 101, 135

Eagleton, Terry, 123

e-books, 182

economic crises, ix, 45–6

economic relations perspective, 27

economic theory, 32–6, 45–6

economics

and ‘bad speed’, 169

and politics, 199–200

state management of economy, 190

‘economies of speed’, 162, 220

education

commodification, 56, 140–1

online education, 6–7

and technology as panacea, 217

Edwards, Paul N., 47–8, 77–8

efficiency, x, 45–6

and acceleration, 164

and cognitive capacity, 177–80

inefficiency of capitalism, 106–7, 180

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 46–7

Ellul, Jacques, 92–3, 107

email: literacy and intelligibility, 116

employment perspective, 27, 104–5

automation and employment, 48–52

and ‘shrinking world’, 110–11, 125

social acceleration in workplace, 179–80

and urbanization, 131–2

see also Fordism; work–life balance

empowerment and information technologies, viii

Engels, Friedrich, 34–5

Enlightenment, 33–4, 136

Enron Corporation, 30

entertainment and information society, 2, 7–9

see also computer games; computer gaming culture; media and digital technologies

environmental degradation, 126–30, 133

expert knowledge, 56–7

Facebook, 153, 155–6, 157

factory system, 34–5

‘fair use’ laws, 149

Falk, Richard, 197–8

family and ‘social acceleration’, 165–6

Faunce, William A., 48–9

fear factor, 217–18

Ferguson, Adam, 33

fibre-optic networks and waste, 106–7

file-sharing, 149

filtering and media consumption, 115, 211–12

financial markets and information society, 29–30

financialization of daily life, 28, 30

Flew, Terry, xi, 25

‘flexible accumulation’, 43–4, 50–2, 66, 101, 120–1

Flexible Specialization, 235

flexible working systems, 5–6, 52, 108

Flickr, 153–4

‘flows’ of information, 3, 7, 124

‘space of flows’ theory, 94–5

football sponsorship, 138–40

Ford, Henry, 40–1

Fordism, 62, 228, 234, 235

assembly-line production techniques, ix, 33, 40–5, 54–5, 224

decline of, 48–52, 162

and overaccumulation problem, 43–5

as ‘total way of life’, 41–5, 163

see also post-Fordism

Forrester, Jay, 48

Foucault, Michel, 61–2, 77

Frank, Thomas, 75, 86–7

Frankfurt School, 184, 228–9

Franklin, Benjamin, 37

Free Software Foundation, 147

free-market economics, 45–6, 75, 120, 221, 231

environmental impact, 126–30, 133

historical context, 32–3, 35–6, 39

see also neoliberalism

‘friction-free capitalism’, 71, 72, 73, 99, 101, 105, 119

fun element of information society, 2

Furedi, Frank, 172–4

games, see computer games; computer gaming culture

Gare, Arran, 79

Gates, Bill, viii, 7, 71, 72, 73–4, 99

General Motors (GM), 193

Generation X (and Y) culture, 1, 143, 146

genetics and ‘good speed’, 167–9

Gibson, William, 226

Giddens, Anthony, 121, 189, 221

Gilder, George, 84–7, 101

Gilder Report and ‘Gilder effect’, 86, 87

Gleick, James, 163–4, 176, 181

global capitalism, 121–2

global civil society, 229, 236

Global Information Infrastructure (GII), 81

‘Global Peace’, 118–19, 120

global perspective, 27

global power and Google, 193

‘global village’ theory, 213

global warming, 128, 216

globalization, 26–7, 229

see also neoliberal globalization

globalized society, 1

Glyn, Andrew, 132

GNU movement, 147, 148

‘gold farming’, 145

Goldberg, Arthur J., 49

‘good speed’, 11, 159, 167–9

Google, 181–2

and power, 191–7, 216

Gore, Al, 80–2, 83–4, 102, 201

government

promotion of Internet, 83–4

see also privatization; state power

‘grassroots lobbying’ and ICTs, 202

Guardian (newspaper), 10–11

Gullers, Peter, 56–7

Hardin, Einar, 48–9

Harvey, David, 46, 67, 125, 130, 133

and Fordism as ‘total way of life’, 42, 44, 163

and speed of capital circulation, 37–8

time–space compression thesis, x, 120–3, 126–8, 166, 168

Hassan, Robert, 138, 160–1, 167

Hayek, Friedrich von, 45, 67–8, 221

health

benefits of ‘good speed’, 167–9

see also ‘pathologies of speed’

Hegel, G.W.F., 227

hegemonic, 229

Heim, Michael, 70

Held, David, 198–9

Henwood, Doug, 32

‘high Fordism’, 42–3

historical development of ICTs, viii–ix, 46–52

historical materialism, 35, 229–30, 232

Hobsbawm, Eric, 39

Hofstadter, Douglas R., 176

Honoré, Carl, 171–2

Horkheimer, Max, 228–9

Howard, John, 203

Hughes, Thomas, 70

human cognition and information overload, 176–80

Human Genome Project (HGP), 168

human–computer interaction (HCI), 4, 40, 88, 90, 230

Hume, David, 33

‘hydraulic effect’ of Internet, 7–8

ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), 230

identity and new technology, 97–8, 175

ideology, 230–1

counter-culture ideology and Google, 194

and development of information society, 1, 66–74

and environmental issues, 133

neoliberalism as dominant ideology, 219–20

illusion and dangers of speed, 12–17

imperialism, 200

improvement and progress, 33–4, 35–6

income inequality, 105

incremental technological change, 187

India, 127–8

individual: isolation of, 174–5

individualism

and digital technologies, 69–70, 83, 105–6, 175

and free-market economics, 32–3, 45, 67–8, 71

Industrial Revolution, 34

industrial society, 34–5

paradigm shift from, 23–4, 44–5

psychological effects, 175–6

see also urbanization

information

and ‘bad speed’, 169–71, 176–80

commodification, 58–9, 192–3

indiscriminate production, 115–17

non-equivalence with knowledge, 53–7, 114, 115

as power, 191

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), 230

information and culture perspective, 27

information ecology, 4, 7

‘information overload’, xii, 115–17, 169–71, 185

and cognitive psychology, 176–80

in political forum, 202

information processing and Internet, 181–5

information society, vii,–xiii,, 52

definition and perspectives on, 23–31

positive and negative views of, 75–108

information technology revolution, ix

critiques, 75–6, 92–104

and ideology, 70–4

and neoliberal globalization, 219

‘informational capitalism’, 59–60, 61

intellectual activity

and information overload, 115–16, 176–80, 220–1

information processing and Internet, 181–5

intellectual legitimacy of new technologies, 87, 88–108

‘intellectual technologies’, 53–4

intelligence gathering, 63–5

interaction, 226

see also human–computer interaction

International Labor Organization (ILO), 105

International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 123

Internet, vii

censorship, 65, 117–18, 119, 194–6

‘change agents’, 82–7

and civil society, 98–9

and ‘complete information’, 71–2

and decommodification of culture, 149–50, 155–6

digital capitalism critique, 99–104

Google power, 191–7, 216

‘hydraulic effect’, 7–8

and ideology, 71

and information processing, 181–5

literacy and intelligibility, 116

online education, 6–7

origins of, 50

and political debate, 201–5

politics and access to, 60–1, 80–1

speed of change, 188

speed and social-psychological

effects, 181–5

as surveillance tool, 64–6

Wikipedia, 150–2, 155, 181–2, 196

‘invisible hand’, 33

iPod market domination, 162

Iran: Internet censorship, 65, 209

Iraq war, 206–7, 210

isolation, 70, 106, 108 of individual, 174–5

Jacobson, Eugene H., 48–9

Jameson, Fredric, viii,, 121–2, 227

Jobs, Steve, 72

Judt, Tony, 217

‘just-in-time’ system, 51

‘keeping up’ with change, 170

Kellner, Douglas, 205–6, 222

Kelly, Kevin, 77

Klein, Naomi, 221

Kling, Rob, 24

‘Knol’ application, 196

knowledge

commodification, 29, 55–7, 115

‘global diffusion’, 114, 115–16

non-equivalence with information, 53–7, 114, 115

and power, 61–2

types of, 54

‘knowledge technologies’/’knowledge society’, 53–4, 55

‘knowledge workers’/‘knowledge executives’, 26–30

Krill, Paul, 176–7, 178

Kroker, Arthur, 202

Krotosi, Aleks, 8

Kurzweil, Ray, 160

Laing, R.D., 13, 21, 22

laissez-faire economics, 45–6, 231

Lanchester, John, 128

Lasch, Christopher, 68–9

Lash, Scott, 44–5, 191

learning process, 7, 116

cognition and information overload, 178–80

and ‘screen culture’, 183–4

Legend of Mir 3, The (computer game), 17–19

leisure

commodification, 63

see also work–life balance

Leslie, Larry L., 141

Lessig, Lawrence, 148–50, 154

Lévinas, Emmanuel, 78

liberal democracy, 15, 39, 199, 200

libertarianism, 83

Licklider, J.C.R., xii,, 4, 40, 78, 88, 90

Lincoln, Abraham, 200

Linux operating system, 147–8, 154

Lipietz, Alain, 43

literacy and new technologies, 115, 116, 182

Loader, Brian, 60

lobbying and digital technologies, 202

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), 29–30

Lubbe, Hermann, 165

Luddism, 66, 231–2

Lyotard, Jean-François, 55–6, 57, 115, 122–3

Machlup, Fritz, 54, 68

McLaughlin, Andrew, 195

McLuhan, Marshall, 155, 212–13

Madlin, Nancy, 89

Magaziner, Ira, 84

‘mainframe era’, 3

man–machine interaction, see

human–computer interaction

‘market populism’, 75, 86

marketing of sports branded wear, 139–40

marketization, 59

see also commodification

Marx, Karl, 16, 34–5, 37, 132, 136, 227, 229, 232

Marxism, 35–6, 37, 38–45, 197–8

mass production techniques, 41–5, 51, 54–5

see also Fordism

Massey, Doreen, 191

material prosperity, 125–6

materialism, 35, 198

see also dialectic materialism; historical materialism

mechanistic world-view, 77–8, 79

media and digital technologies, 10–11

filtering and media consumption, 115, 211–12

medicine and `good speed’, 167–9

‘megacities’, 130–1, 132

Melucci, Alberto, 174–5

memory and information overload, 178–80

mergers and acquisitions

and digital convergence, 102

and games, 144

Merton, Robert C., 30

metaphor of computer, 77–8, 79–80

micro-power systems, 61–2

Microsoft, 72, 73, 146–7, 156

‘military-industrial complex’and

computers, 1, 46–8, 50, 58

Mills, C. Wright, 46

MIT

Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), 90–2

Media Lab, 70–1, 88–92, 232

Mitchell, William, 117

mobile phones, vii, 8–9

mobility of capital, 43–4, 45, 124

‘moblogs’, 208

mode of production, 232

capitalism and role of speed, 32–46, 48–52, 54–5

Modes of Regulation (MORs), 43, 235

Moore, Gordon E., 160

Moore’s Law, 160

Morris, Sue, 143, 145

Mosco, Vincent, 57–9, 61

MP3, 232

multinational corporations (MNCs), 62, 123–5

see also business; neoliberal globalization

multitasking

cognition and learning, 178–9

and time–space compression, x, 36, 95, 166, 220

Mumford, Lewis, 161

Murdoch, Rupert, 113

narcissism and technology, 212–13

NASDAQ, 72, 85–6, 233

National Information Infrastructure (NII), 80–1, 84

‘need for speed’

and capitalism, 36–8, 161, 162, 166, 223

CEOs and pressure of time, 179–80, 186

negative views of information society, 92–108

‘bad speed’, 11, 96–7, 159, 169–80

Negroponte, Nicholas, 70–1, 88–92, 135, 232

neo-Fordism, 46

neoliberal globalization, ix, xii, 2, 62–3, 69, 112, 222–3

and ‘culture of commodification’, 137, 142–6

environmental impact, 126–30, 133

fear factor, 217–18

inefficiency of, 106–7, 180

and revolution in ICT, 219

and shrinking world, 109–10, 123–5

and speed and acceleration, 162, 163, 166, 170, 179–80

neoliberalism, 233

and commodification of information, 59

digital capitalism critique, 99–104

and digital divide, 59–61, 227

as dominant ideology, 219–20

and efficiency, 45–6

and employment effects, 104–5

and ‘flexible accumulation’, 50–2

growth model, 128

and ideology, 67–70

neoliberalism

political effect, 95–7, 98–9

politics and power, 190–223

and promotion of Internet, 85–7

and ‘shrinking world’, 109–12, 123–34

and sites of power, 191

Neo-Schumpeterianism, 235

‘network effect’, 2–15, 25, 101–2, 223

and speed effect, 11–15

‘network sociality’, 156–8

network society, vii–viii, 1, 6, 24–5, 233

and ‘space of flows’ theory, 94–5

and speed, 181–2, 185, 188

technology and civil society, 98–9

networks and digital capitalism critique, 99–104

Neubauer, Deane, 132

neurasthenia, 175–6

New Economy, 229, 233

as computer driven, 5, 75–108

newspapers and digital technologies, 10

NII, see National Information Infrastructure

Nolan, James, 174

North–South divide, 132–3

Nowotny, Helga, 14

‘numbness’ and ‘bad speed’, 22–3, 171, 172

obsession with technologies/selves, 212–13

Ong, Walter, 182, 183

online gaming community, 8, 17–19, 144–6

open-source software, 147–8, 154–5

oral culture and print culture, 182–3

organizational management, 38

outsourcing, 111

overaccumulation problem, 43–5

Owen, Robert, 35

‘pace of life’, 166

see also ‘social acceleration’

Page, Larry, 191, 194

Pain, Julien, 209–10

Panopticon, 63–4

‘pathologies of speed’, 167, 170, 171

anxiety, 172–6

performative knowledge, 55–6, 57, 115

‘personal computer (PC) era’, 3

Petrini, Carlo, 171–2

philosophy and lack of time, 183–4, 220–1

Plato, 12

podcasts, 233–4

Poe, Marshall, 151–2, 155

polarization of wealth, 105

Poldrack, Russell, 178–9

political activism, 205–18

political economy, 33–6, 221, 234

critique of new technologies, 76–7, 79, 92–108

‘political economy of information’, 58–9

political gridlock, 202–3

politics

and ‘bad speed’, 96–7, 169

and ‘benefits’ of ICTs, 117–20

and business in information society, 95–6, 196–7

censorship of Internet, 65, 117–18, 119

and control, 66, 189, 190–223

definition of, 198–9

and digital medium, 201–5

history and context, 197–201

see also democracy; political economy

positive views of information society, 79–92

‘good speed’, 11, 159, 167–9

Poster, Mark, 112

post-Fordism, 26, 234–5

and decentralization, 62

and ideology, 66–8

and speed and acceleration, 163

transition to, 43, 44–5, 76–7

post-industrial society, 23–4, 52–7

Postman, Neil, 78

postmodernity: transition to, 23, 76–108, 120–3, 201

‘poverty of attention’, 220

power relations

capitalism and control through technology, 61–6

Google power, 191–7, 216

information as power, 191

politics and control, 189, 190–223

power elites and research, 46–7

see also control

PricewaterhouseCoopers, 7–8, 143

print culture, 182–3

private sector and power, 190–1

privatization

information technologies, 100, 102–4

public utilities, 140, 191

productive forces, 232

programming code and decommodification, 146–9, 154

progressive improvement, 33–4, 35–6

equation with speed, 160–1

promotion of Internet, 83–4, 85–7

Proulx, E. Annie, 182

psychological effects, 170

anxiety and social acceleration, 172–6

cognition and information overload, 176–80

social-psychological effects of Internet, 181–5

‘pushbutton fantasies’, 58–60

Putnam, Robert, 68, 108, 235

Qiu Chengwei, 18–19

quality of life: material prosperity, 125–6

Reagan, Ronald, 50, 221

reality in postmodern world, 122–3

reflection: lack of time for, 11–12, 176–7, 183–5, 220–1

Regimes of Accumulation (ROAs), 235

Regulation School, 43, 235

regulation theory, 43–4, 235

‘remaking of the world’, 46

Reporters Without Borders (RWB), 196, 209–10

research and power elites, 46–8

‘reserve army of labour’, 132

Rheingold, Howard, 3, 117, 152–3, 201, 205

Ricardo, David, 198

Rifkin, Jeremy, 4–5, 162, 220

Robins, Kevin, 61–66, 135

Rosa, Hartmut, 9, 164–7, 172

Rossetto, Louis, 70–1

Roszak, Theodore, 55, 57, 69, 79

Russia, 127–8

Sabelis, Ida, 179–80, 184–5, 186

Schiller, Dan, 99–104, 106, 135

Scholes, Myron, 30

Schumpeter, Joseph, 215

science

and ‘good speed’, 167–9

and technology in service of capitalism, 122–3

scientific management, 39–45

Scottish Enlightenment, 33–4

‘screen culture’, 183–5

Second Life, 153

security services and digital technologies, 25

self and new technology, 97–8, 174

narcissism, 212–13

Sennett, Richard, 68, 108

September 11 attacks, 25

service industries in post-industrial society, 53

Shenk, David, 115, 202, 203

shirt sponsorship and sales, 138–40

Showalter, Elaine, 175–6

‘shrinking’ of space, ix–x, 38–9, 109–34

Sigarchi, Arash, 209

Simon, Herbert, xii, 178, 220

simulacra, 205

Skype, x, 110

Slaughter, Sheila, 141

‘slow (food) movement’, 171–2

slowness of change in earlier generations, 186–8

slums in developing countries, 131, 132

Smith, Adam, 32–3, 45, 71, 198, 233

‘social acceleration’, 9, 16, 21–3, 112, 158, 164–7, 169–89, 223

social capital, 68, 235

social communication and commodification, 137

social democracy, 41, 42, 45, 220, 235–6

social exclusion and digital divide, 59–61

social life and speed, 21–3

social networking, 69, 119, 152–4, 207

commercial interests in, 155–6

and ‘network sociality’, 156–8

social and technical relations of production, 232

socialism, 45, 235–6

software and decommodification, 147–8, 154–5

South Korea, 8

space

‘shrinking’ of space, ix,–x, 38–9, 109–34

space and time perspective, 27

see also time–space compression

‘space of flows’ theory, 94–5

speed and acceleration, xi–xii, 1–31, 159–89, 220

bad speed, 11, 96–7, 159, 169–80

and capitalism and mode of production, 32–46, 48–52, 54–5

dangers of speed, 11–17

and decommodification, 146–58

and education, 7

‘good speed’, 11, 159, 167–9

and illusion, 12–17

and networks, 11–15, 94–5, 181–2, 185, 188

and pressure on individuals, 68–9, 161, 179–80, 186

speed of change in earlier generations, 16, 75–6, 185–6, 186–8

see also ‘need for speed’; ‘social acceleration’

‘speeding up’ of time, ix–x

see also speed and acceleration

sports sponsorship, 138–40

‘stages’ theory, 34, 136

Stallman, Richard, 147, 150, 154

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 159

state power, 190–1

Stein, Jeremy, 16, 186–7

Strange, Susan, 30

stress, 106

anxiety and speed, 172–6

Sunstein, Cass, 211–12, 213–14

superficiality, see `surface effect’

supply and demand, 32–3, 41

‘surface effect’, 20, 22, 181, 184–5

surveillance and information technologies, 63–5

systemization of capitalism, 38–46

systems of technology, 93, 107–8

Taylor, Frederick, 39–40

‘technological acceleration’, 164

technological change: slowness in earlier generations, 186–8

technopolitics, 205–7, 222, 236

techno-utopians, 88–92

television, 10, 85

terrorism and new technologies, 25

Thatcher, Margaret, 50, 68, 75, 221

theory and information society, 52–66

critiques, 92–108

and time–space compression, 112–34

see also economic theory; regulation theory

‘therapy culture’, 173, 174

Thompson, Tony, 145

time

and invention of clock, 161–2

as precious commodity, 163–4

pressure of time for CEOs, 179–80, 186

space and time perspective, 27, 187

‘speeding up’ of time, ix,–x, 68–9

see also time–space compression

‘time is money’ethos, 37, 55, 163–4

‘time-sickness’, 171, 172

time–space compression, ix,–x, 38–9, 95, 188

and ‘pace of life’, 166, 176–7

and theory, 112–34

see also ‘shrinking space’; speed and acceleration; ‘speeding up’ of time

Toffler, Alvin, 66

Torvalds, Linus, 147–8, 154

‘transition phase’, 3

transport and shrinking world, 109–10

truth

and context, 14

and postmodernity, 122–3

Turing Test and `brain-as-computer’, 77–8

‘ubiquitous computing era’, 3–4

Ubuntu freeware, 148, 154

UCLA study, 178–9

UK Online, 60–1

‘unconnectedness’: disadvantages, 9

unemployment and New Economy, 110–11, 125

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), 60

universities, 6–7, 56, 140–1

urbanization, 129–33

and ‘neurasthenia’, 175–6

see also industrial society

Urry, John, 44–5

user-generated content, see blogs

and blogging; social

networking

Utsumi, Yoshio, 123–4

video-enabled mobile phones, 8

Virilio, Paul, 169–70, 171, 175, 202

virtual communities, 3, 69–70

‘digital Town Hall’ politics, 201

online gaming, 8, 17–19, 144–6

social networking, 152–4, 155–6, 207

virtual operations, 167–8

‘virtual sweatshops’, 145

‘voice over the internet protocol’ (VoIP), x, 110

Wales, Jimmy, 150

Walmart, 162–3

Walton, Sam, 163

‘war on terror’, 25

Wasko, Janet, 57–8

wastefulness of capitalism, 106–7

web browsers, 225

Webster, Frank, 61–66, 135

‘weightless’ businesses, 4–5, 6, 111, 162–3, 166

Google as, 192, 193

Weinstein, Michael, 202

Weiser, Mark, 3–4

Welch, Jack, 36–7, 161

Welch, Kathleen, 183

Wiener, Norbert, 78

Wiesner, Jerome B., 88–9, 232

Wi-fi, 236

wiki technologies, 150, 214, 215

Wikipedia, 150–2, 155, 181–2, 196

Wired (magazine), 70–1, 82

Wittel, Andreas, 156–7

work–life balance, 5–6, 62–3, 166

World Social Forum (WSF), 99, 222, 236

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), 123

world view and technological change, 76–8

Wozniak, Steve, 72

‘YouTube Debates’, 204–5

Zhu Caoyuan, 18–19

Ziek, Slavoj, 142

Zuckerberg, Mark, 153