Judy Wajcman’s ‘Finding Time in a Digital Age’ discusses the idea of time and how we today live in what she describes as an ‘accelerated’ society. She characterises technology‘reconfigures’ time and suggests that we ought to recognise that time is a man-made creation, its source a machine: the clock. Although machines were made to save us time and make work/production more efficient, they have in fact done the opposite. She alludes to time contributing to “the unparalleled velocity of computerisation, telecommunications, and transport, which was expected to free up human time, has paradoxically been accompanied by a growing sense of time pressure” For instance, a computer is a component that was meant to ‘save’ us time, in simple areas such as word processing. This kind of technology was supposed to leave room for more leisure time in our lives whilst becoming a pillar for the new modernised democratised free world. However, it has in fact conjured up a blurred line between work and play, because these kinds of technologies have intruded on our home lives. The ability to work from home, as a result of advanced communication devices, has allowed employees and employers to design their own business hours (rather than sticking to the traditional 9-5 office hours). We are now as they say, mixing business and pleasure through a computer screen and an IPhone. We are unfortunately stemming a generation and future generation where a single assignment will take hours, double the time it should take because the word ‘procrastination’ is now being embedded into every and any excuse. People are now able to work as little, but more significantly, as much, as they would like to. Wajcman has found that people are now working more than people were during the first industrial revolution, even though they are actually far wealthier. Wajcman believes that this is because the western, capitalist society that we live in ‘…inflames our insatiable desire for consumption of goods’. I do agree with her argument where today the capitalist mindset of working hard, and being rewarded for this in the form of success, has given rise to the idea that we can’t enjoy our leisure time for the sake of leisure. In the end, Wajcman asserts that the unemployed have been demonised  in society, as they are perceived as ‘time-wasters’ – a fact that i truly believe today.