People have so much going on that they feel like everything has to happen instantly, so they can get it all done.

If you don't act fast........puff......it's gone. That's just the way things are now.

greed and people are scared they are going to miss out on something

people get more and more impatient. This is a cause for many problems in our world right now including obesity. People no longer want to wait for a nutritious meal, so they just go to fast food restaurants where they can get their food faster even though its unhealthy.

Read Future Shock and The Third Wave, both by Alvin Toffler. They'll give you a good perspective on the situation.

we will go overdrive and destroy ourselves

but.. what do we do with all the time we have saved?

Because there is more to be done and less time to do it

no one has the will to bear discomfort. regardless of the fact that efficiency renders ability useless.

There is no more work to be done than there was when most people farmed. You never get done on a farm, it just gets too dark to work. But we waste so much time these days on gadgets and video games and in public schools and then we have to run double time to catch up. Kids didn't have to be ferried from one activity to another even 35 years ago. There was no "mom's taxi." You walked to and from school and you walked to any after school activities. If it was too far to walk or take a city bus by yourself, you didn't do it. Kids didn't have all the activities that they do now. Parent's didn't have ridiculous expectations that their kid was going to get rich playing football if they dragged them to enough football activities after school. Parents didn't argue with kids all evening the way they do now. If the kid didn't do what the kid was supposed to, they both got some really uncomfortable punishment and they failed. Parents didn't used to think that healthy family life included wrangling over everything and doing things for the kid so the kid wouldn't fail. Their job was to teach the kid to be responsible, not to be responsible for them so that they didn't have to. Kids didn't used to have play dates. They played with neighborhood kids and took care of that activity themselves. Mom's didn't work outside the home. If you crunch the numbers, you'll find that you get to keep very little of that second income after taxes, buying the second car, buying the second work wardrobe, paying for daycare and eating out or eating prepared meals more often because mom doesn't have time to cook. When mom or dad is home while the other parent works, dinner is on the table when everyone gets home and the household chores are done. No one has to rush around like crazy trying to cook supper, monitor homework, do laundry and vacuum the living room all at the same time. There used to be something called blue laws. They made sure that every business was closed on Sunday so that everyone had time to rest one day a week. That was church time and social/family time for most folks, but even those who didn't go to church got a chance to rest. Most families had only one car then and they have two to four now. One car is one half to one quarter the time sitting in oil change places, tune up places, tire places, car washes and dealerships to what we spend now. People didn't have as much stuff to keep track of and maintain as they do now. Stuff takes time. My house was built with two 36 inch closets. That was all the clothing most families had back in the 1940's. That wasn't even as much space as one walk-in closet these days. Think how much more time it takes to clean, fold, hang, wash, iron and mend all the clothing we have now. Think how much time it takes to pick up all the toys kids have these days over the few toys we had 30-50 years ago.

our brains are over stimulated and there is some much happening that we are afraid we are going to miss "SOMETHING" since so many mistakes in the past happened because of the lack of reliable and trust worthy information and now we are enendated with it and we are just a much more dangerous bull with a ring through it's nose running around in the China store than we were before .. ~Nemo~

because technology has advanced so rapidly in the last 50 years smaller faster more efficient I wouldnt like to go back to having everything so basic ie dial up,a standard bt phone.

Because no one has patience anymore. It's always go, go, go and we always want something better and faster.

Instant gratification due to immaturity.

Because patience isn't a lesson thats taught anymore.

Economic reasons, mostly. Companies want to get at least 3% growth every year without needing to spend money. the faster things go, the more productive the world is, the more money a company makes. Eventually the world will be able to make everything it needs for a year in 10 days, provided we don't create new needs(Which we always do, like internet connections, cellphones, computers, Television, ect).