In our drive-thru, instant, there’s-an-app-for-that culture of fast everything, where our iDevice mobile amusements see to it that no time is dead time, the concept of slowing down seems strange to us. When any news of the world can be known in a real-time Twitter stream, when any question or dilemma can be solved with a quick Google search and when any song or book or niche product can be purchased from anywhere with a few clicks and a credit card, it seems archaic to settle for, let alone value, a slower process of consumption. Read More