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A celebration of waiting throughout history, and of its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communication We have always been conscious of the wait for lifechanging messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier's family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe to deliver data from the far reaches of the solar system. In this book in praise of wait times, awardwinning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message. Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman shows how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how they have interpreted those times' meanings.
About the Author
Jason Farman is the Director of the Design, Cultures & Creativity Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and a faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. He has written about technology and media studies for the past decade and has been a contributing author for The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been interviewed on NPR, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and has been a frequent media expert on how technology is transforming culture for ABC News, the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, and the Denver Post, among others.
