Everything speeds up. You, of course, won't notice it if you travel along with it but steppping outside of that reality even for a perceived nanosecond you notice the speed increasing.

I am 52 and I agree.

They had a lot of air time to fill, and covered stuff that hadn't been covered other than locally before. Plus, they started going to saturation coverage on certain stories, and one result was that the attention span of the audience became a lot shorter. So some story would rise up like a tsunami, be the only thing talked about or shown for a period of time, and then disappear as if it hadn't happened.

But some of you have some good points here.

He pointed specifically to the trand of a changeover from an industrial society to what he called an information society.

Change happens much more rapidly in an information age than it did in the industrial age or the agricultural age before that.

So THAT's what has happened!!! Seems I never have a second to myself these days.

Computers haven't really made our lives all that much easier. They've just tremendously accelerated the pace of life and raised expectations about how much we're supposed to get done.