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13.10.13
A acabar de ler Retromania e em jeito de conclusão...
In the analogue era, everyday life moved slowly (you had to wait for the news, and for new releases) but the culture as a whole felt like it was surging forward. In the digital present, everyday life consists of hyper-acceleration and near-instantaneity (downloading, web pages constantly being refreshed, the impatient skimming of text on screens), but on the macro-cultural level things feel static and stalled. We have this paradoxical combination of speed and standstill
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Retromania p. 427
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