Pressed for Time Quotes

“Psychologists confirm that humans are incapable of giving their full attention to two tasks simultaneously.37 What people actually do is switch their attention from one task or platform to the next, and such task switching leads to a host of issues, including attention difficulties, poor decision making, and information overload.”
― Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

“I begin by describing the saturation of everyday life by media technologies, for example, how people are meshing multiple devices. I then present some of my own research on the mobile phone’s role in shifting the boundaries between work and home. The main use of the mobile phone turns out to be social, with much value placed on the enhanced ability to microcoordinate the timing of complex family activities. In this way, I argue, mobile phones have become a new tool for intimacy.”
― Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

“I question this stereotype of the technologically tethered worker with no control over his time. Instead, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for both work-related and personal matters is shown to have positive, as well as negative, implications for men and women workers. The contemporary office has by my account morphed into a ubiquitous technoscape, and this has reconfigured the very nature of working time.”
― Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

“other words, technologies only come to life and have meaning as people adopt and use them.”
― Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism