In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them."--Jacket.

Introduction: Tools for time -- High-speed society: is the pace of life accelerating? -- Time and motion: machines and the making of modernity -- The time-pressure paradox -- Working with constant connectivity -- Doing domestic time -- Time to talk: intimacy through technology -- Finding time in a digital age.