Quantitative, Fast-paced, Efficient

"Despite our alleged efficiency, as compared to almost every other period of history, we seem to have less time for ourselves and far less time for each other. Even the idea of savoring an experience has become an anachronism in a world where "being" is less important than "becoming" and where experience is a substitute for participation.

Clearly we have had to pay a heavy price for our efficient society. We have quickened the pace of life only to become less patient. We have become more organized but less spontaneous, less joyful. We are better prepared to act on the future but less able to enjoy the present and reflect on the past. We have learned how to extract and make things at a faster pace but end up exploiting and devaluing each other's time at the workplace in order to increase production quotas. The efficient society has increased our superficial creature comforts but forced us to become more detached, self-absorbed, and manipulative in relation to others

...As the tempo of modern life has continued to accelerate, we have come to feel increasingly out of touch with the biological rhythms of the planet, unable to experience a close connection with the natural environment. The human time world is no longer joined to the incoming and outgoing tides, the rising and setting sun, and the changing of the seasons. Instead, humanity has created an artificial time environment punctuated by mechanical contrivances and electronic impulses: a time place that is quantitative, fast-paced, efficient, and predictable."

-Time Wars, Jeremy Rifkin

http://www.foet.org/JeremyRifkin.htm