‘Finding Time in a Digital Age’, the topic of this week’s reading.

This title is so relatable to my daily life that I even feel like reading this and writing a blog post about it will take up 2 hours (bad concentration here) when there are only 24 hours a day (minus 8 hours of sleep, one hour of breakfast and preparation for class, walk to uni and walk back took around half an hour, one and a half hour lunch break, went to buy lunch for half an hour, two hours of tutorial and workshop each and dinner for an hour, so I’m only left with three and a half hours for the day and that still excludes gym and showering time which will take up two hours!) So in conclusion, I’m only left with 90 minutes on my own.

In the chapter, Adam rephrased School’s words saying that Americans have lost track of their daily personal time for their own (Adam, 2014), and I would say most of the working people, in fact, have no control over their time when 9am to 5pm is the basic working hours, one hour to prepare for work and one hour to get back home, with overtime work for like 2 or 3 hours, lunch and dinner time 2 hours, and their day is left with 7 hours, and this 7-hour time has to include their sleeping hours. According to Adam (2014), the standard working time is 8 hours, from Monday to Friday is a “landmark achievement of twentieth-century social democracy” after the World War II. I would argue the same as Robert and Edward Skidelsky that we are performing better as compared to twentieth-century, but why aren’t the work time getting reduced, and especially when technologies have been replacing our positions to get the jobs done?

Talking about technology, it has gradually become one of the essential needs in our lives. Whether at the subway or pedestrian cross or even toilet, you’ll never fail to see anyone who’s without their phone, their tablets. For instance, while waiting for food, someone on the table will be Snapchat-ing, and when the food comes, taking pictures comes before eating, even I do that sometimes when it’s meant to be a bonding time and enjoying-the-food moment. Digital detox diet must come at once, a day in a week is enough…

Instagram moment #1

Instagram moment #2