Instant technical availability reduces the felt desire for the very things it makes available
Evidence
On the other hand, Longheart only notices every once in a while the desire to preserve something in an image in order to enjoy it later or pass it on to posterity. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 54
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Money makes desire instantly operative, dissolving the technical distance to objects; Technology saves time yet people feel more time-starved than ever — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 58; Service availability creates demand rather than merely satisfying it — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 292 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Money makes desire instantly operative, dissolving the technical distance to objects
#corroborates(0.88) - Service availability creates demand rather than merely satisfying it
#complicates(0.82) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 292 - Limiting desire may intensify rather than deaden it
#corroborates(0.78) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 164 - Technology saves time yet people feel more time-starved than ever
#expands(0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 58 - Time-saving technology coexists with unprecedented felt time scarcity
#expands(0.75) - Technical acceleration contradicts rather than explains modern time scarcity and stress
#qualifies(0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 236 - Technology cannot justify itself by saving time because existence exists only by being spent
#expands(0.72)