E-mail, text messages and a need to be available 24 hours a day seems to be the blame for all of us speeding up the pace.
One of the researcher professors Richard Wiseman is worried by the rising need for speed.
"We just have this feeling that we should be producing and active all of the time," he said. "That is fuelled by the email, text, mobile phone culture."Just haven gotten a smartphone three weeks ago I’ve realised how easy it is to get caught in that new technology of texts, emails and being available 24/7, especially with the emails. Both good and bad in a sense I guess. But still somehow I have fallen in love with my HTC S710. It’s an amazing little gadget!
"But there has to be an upper limit, because if this trend continues, we will arriving places before we have set off."
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Hi Cathy,
Oddly enough, I saw that article last week too, and I thought of it when a couple of people got to close to me from behind and in one case actually walked into me when I stopped unexpectedly in Gothenburg over the weekend. So yes, Gothenburg is quite a fast city. London is fast compared to most cities, but I think I agree that it is slowish given its size and importance.
I find that this happens quite often in Scandinavia: people walking into you etc, but tend to think that it's more a matter of manners. When I moved back from London to Oslo I was frequently annoyed by how rude Norwegians are, though I know it's not by intent, just a cultural thing, for one they don't have any queu culture...
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