Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World Audiobook (Free)

We have always been aware of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be the time it requires to get a text from your love, for the soldier’s family to understand news from leading, or for an area probe to provide data from your far reaches of the solar system. In this book in compliment of wait moments, award-winning writer Jason Farman passionately argues which the delay between contact and answer has always been an important part of the message.

Journeying backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman shows how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and exactly how they have interpreted those moments’ meanings. Discovering seven eras and objects of waiting-including pneumatic email tubes in New York, Elizabethan polish seals, and Aboriginal Australian message sticks-Farman gives a new attitude for waiting. Inside a rebuttal to the demand for quick communication, Farman makes a robust case for why good things can come to those that wait.