Speed, as described by physics is the result of division of distance on time passing to complete that distance. During the semester we read texts discuss the negative effect of speeding up the travels. When sitting in a train or plane passing a way, we are missing the landscape surrounding the path, in other words, the space between two points. The interesting point for me during this week’s articles was that actually by doing things fast, we are missing the opportunity to learn and master the skills of doing stuff. Today’s technologies and our will of doing things as fast as possible, ruin the times in which we can practice doing things. Though the example of using CAD is a very clear one, there are even more skills new generation is missing to master. In my point of view, even more important than master a skill is the opportunity to think about the procedures which used to take much time is a very important missing point.

I remember Krueger’s interactive art works in one of which a delay played a very critical role. The delay between the message that the human side of the work send and the response of the environment. That work can place among Hallnäs and Redström piece’s examples. The delay in Krueger’s work invited participants to “wait” and “think” about possible correlation of their actions and environmental changes. This delay is an artificial effect despite the simultaneous response of the machine.

In the time that our society is speeding up the speed of events, speeding down the process can only be an artificial break since all new technologies surrounding us are self-catalyst phenomenon which are accelerating each other each day. The main question is that who is intended to stop the speeding of speed of technology-based events. In the “manifesto” article we can see a wave of new left political stream that asks even for more acceleration and in Brand’s short article he named conservatives as critics of the accelerating world. I don’t find myself eligible to judge whether accelerating the progress regarding the criticisms over it, is a right decision or not. What I can guess is that the reason why the conservative/religious part of the society may be against the fast speed of events is not the fact that we are losing opportunities (like thinking or master a skill) during this process but that they can’t move that fast to accord themselves with changes.