Our free time is frittered away, bit by bit, with hardly a second thought. Each person encounters more information each minute than ever before. Data surrounds us. Each second, we are forced to make decisions incorporating all available information. The proliferation of e-mail changed the way we communicate and imposed obligations on our time.
People write far fewer letters now.
Before, it might take two weeks or more to receive a response to a letter, due to travel time and waiting for a person to respond. Information rushes toward us at unprecedented speeds. We need faster computers and faster connections in order to keep up. The Internet can be an amazing resource of information. Almost any piece of information can be found instantly, day or night, without a trip to the library or other old ways of researching.