Update: December 2022 – slow archaeology

“Our brains aren’t designed for multitasking”, my dear friend Cliff Nass, mathematician, cognitive scientist and psychologist, warned me a good long while ago – and he’d written a book about it! “It will slow you down and cloud your reasoning.” OK — I’m still working on the same big three projects as back then. But…

speed

Cliff Nass and I have started our seminar – Cars: past, present, future. The project – automotive archaeology. This week – motor sports. Speed as zeitgeist. I am rereading Jeffrey Schnapp’s wonderful collection Speed Limits. Here is Marinetti – February 1909: We affirm that the magnificence of the world has been enriched by the advent…