Mark C. Taylor
Mark C. Taylor is chair of the department of religion at Columbia University and and Co-Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life. His books include Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left, from Yale University Press.
Where Time Went (and why we have so little left)
“Sleeker. Faster. More Intuitive” (The New York Times); “Welcome to a world where speed is everything” (Verizon FiOS); “Speed is God, and time is the devil” (chief of Hitachi’s portable-computer division). In “real” time, life speeds up until time itself seems to disappear—fast is never fast enough, everything has to be done now, instantly. To…
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