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TESOL 2003: Hearing Every Voice: Event number #2827:

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Here are the notes I made for the Conversations about Time, Part 1, from NPR. I did share them with students.

James Glick: Faster: The acceleration of just about everything; 1898...

Interviewer: Susan Stamberg:
1 min

SS: Are there still just 24 hours in a day?

JG: Yes.. but we become ambivalent about it... what happened to the good old days? Chair at the beach...That's the problem... we all long for that....

JG thought that all the hurry was not a good thing... fast food is not good food.... the impuls

SS: Let's talk some about what we do at that increased speed.

JG: Multitasking and time slicing....30 second bed-time stories....

SS: Are we more productive, though, since we are multitasking all the time?

JG.. suspicion.. NO... but computer has made us more productive... attention span / attention deficit disorder...
Still: we are more productive collectively....but... computer is not un

SS: Why, James Glick, uh...do we live faster and faster, do you think? It's clearly by choice, we could stop if we wanted to... we could slow down.

JG: slow food movement... w/ website and e-mail...we speed up because we can... we liked zooming down a snowy hill.... a thrill...

SS: gives us a rush..

SS: But you write somewhere, something a little deeper...You say that we 're rushing around like this so that we knowwe exist and so we won't be alone.

JG I do feel, and I don't want to over sell this... a fear of death.. we have a limited amount of time......you started by asking if there are

Next Thurs: A couple who've been married for almost 50 years....

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