Faster! Humanity's Quest to Save Time

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Faster! Humanity's Quest to Save Time


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42 minutes 2025 HD

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Explores the scientific, social, economic and environmental consequences of supposedly time-saving inventions, ideas and objects. Throughout a lifetime, the minutes that are actually lost or saved can add up to days, weeks, months or even years.

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