ABSTRACT
A lot of the technological tools we use at work, at home or on the move are designed to help manage time. Network technology helps to organise and co-ordinate meetings with large numbers of people with little effort, and mobiles help to stay in constant touch, warning people of any impending delays or changes to the arrangement. This is supposed to make lives easy and to reduce stress. But the real effect is apparently the reverse. Mobile telephones change our relationship with time in a different way. This mobile space is different from the vast formless space created by the World Wide Web. It is only open to trusted intimates, members of the group. It forms an open channel of contact in which communication between different people and groups can continue without restriction. The mobile generation is more inclined to live on the hoof and less likely to be bound by formal time, 'clock time', structures.
