Things ‘seem’ like they’re getting faster and faster as technology rapidly improves and people become less able to cope.

“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.”

Read The Sovereign Individual. We're entering the information age and leaving the industrial age.