Just as we challenged the “bigger is better” theory in the late ‘sixties and concluded that small is O.K., it’s time to realize that faster isn’t better. Slower may be more humane.

-Jeremy Rifkin
Time Wars

We are at a point in history where, to most Americans, the value of time is reaching parity with the value of money.

-John Robinson, Director American Use of Time Project

High-speed technology has people working faster than ever before. Car phones and laptop computers let them take their work home with them. Their home lives are accelerated by microwave ovens, convenience foods, and cleaning appliances. Evenings and Sundays-once times of rest-are spent shopping, cleaning, doing errands.

What’s being lost? What should change? How will it happen?