Instant Everything: How the Pursuit of Speed is Rewiring Modern Culture

We live in an era where waiting is viewed not as a virtue, but as a design flaw. If a webpage takes more than three seconds to load, we click away. If a text message sits unreplied for an hour, we wonder if something is wrong. From instant noodles and 10-minute grocery delivery to streaming entire seasons of television in a single weekend, society has built a massive infrastructure dedicated to a single, relentless pursuit: the elimination of friction.