Our ability to work fast and play fast gives us power. It thrills us. If we have learned the name of just one hormone, it is adrenaline. No wonder we call sudden exhilaration a rush." Your life is lived with the kind of excitement that your forebears knew only in battle, "observes the writer Mark Helprin. And: "They, unlike you, were the prisoner of mundane tasks. They wrote with pens, they did addition, they waited endlessly for things that come to you instantaneously, they had far less than you do and they bowed to necessity, as you do not. You love the pace, the giddy, continual acceleration."
— James Gleick, Mark Helprin, Faster by James Gleick