Pace

One distinct question is the pace of life. Surely it's accelerating, but how? Is having a wide set of acquaintances one driver? Travel has become more routine. Crossing an ocean is no longer a life threatening risk that takes at best weeks. 60 miles, or rather, an hour in a car, has shrunk from a rare event to a daily. Telephone, text, and online allow us to keep tabs on whomever we wish. And vice versa. Yet is this of any value?

Couple this pace with our current jobs - which are exactly what? Do any of us have a job or task that is either important, directly connected to subsistence or existence? Disenfranchised, overstimulated, with weak attractions. Family as an anachronism. Friends are on Facebook.

One wonders what a detailed study of the change of face to face contact from 1939 to 1969 to 1999 to 2029 will look like. I can imagine or compile from second hand knowledge 39 69 and 99 - for 29 it is simply an extrapolation of today. Times 10.