A scarcity-free time society was a widely dreamed-of technological promise

Evidence

This, or something like it, is how we could picture a world in which a certain dream of technological promise had become reality, one that captivated people’s imaginations well into the twentieth century: namely, the dream of an emancipated world in which there was no such thing as a scarcity of time, where time had even been transformed from a scarce good into an overabundant one. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 56

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Twentieth-century thinkers widely predicted technology would produce abundant leisure time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 57; Modern advocates long expected technology to deliver abundant free time; Time-saving technology coexists with unprecedented felt time scarcity (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern advocates long expected technology to deliver abundant free time #corroborates (0.95)
• Time scarcity is cultural and psychological, not just measurable #expands (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 268
• Time-saving technology coexists with unprecedented felt time scarcity #contradicts (0.72)