Efficiency: Time and time again?

Today's information technologies have colonized various aspects of everyday lives of humans, bringing together incessant and unbounded demands. For one, the emergence of mobile computing has erased the physical, temporal, geographical, and sometimes moral boundaries of technology access and use. While productivity has a connotation of efficient organization of things, it also has an economic connotation of cost reduction. Time and again, both were conflated in the ways in which researcher designed technologies. It is interesting how different notions of time have intrinsically influenced the designs of information technology. All together, software engineers' experiences with time have been greatly affected by those technologies. It is cheap and easy now to delegate tasks to others, be they employees, colleagues, customers, or people in general.