This chapter defines immediate modernity as a temporal condition in which anticipation and reflection have been overwritten by an enforced, algorithmic present. Time no longer flows but accumulates: layered, compressed, and rendered flat through digital intensities. Drawing on Land, Fisher, Suarez-Villa, Rosa, and others, it argues that technological development has become inseparable from capitalist logic, embedding accumulation within ‘innovation’ itself. Acceleration paradoxically operates as both mechanism of stability and driver of collapse; this creates a contradictory culture of forced progress, sustained by anxiety, and perpetually on the edge of implosion.