Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Before Reading Unit 6 The Pace of Life D R _ Text 1 Old Father Time Becomes a Terror Once upon a time, technology, we thought, would make our lives easier. Machines were expected to do our work for us, leaving us with ever-increasing quantities of time to waste away on idleness and pleasure. But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as
