Over the past century, the pace of life has increased exponentially. What are some ways in which life has become "faster"?Has this been a positive or negative change? Why.
72 Comments
Dakota James
10/16/2019 01:14:49 pm
We have gotten faster transportation like cars, planes, and boats. This is a great thing most of the time and makes everything easier. It can also be bad because it causes injuries.
Reply
Olivia
10/16/2019 01:16:08 pm
You have good ideas.
Reply
Trishelle
10/16/2019 01:16:14 pm
Yes your right
Reply
Madeline
10/16/2019 01:16:24 pm
That’s true faster transportation nowadays can cause injuries.
Reply
Carson
10/16/2019 01:18:45 pm
Very true transportation has been up a lot.
Reply
Madeline
10/16/2019 01:14:57 pm
Some ways in which the pace of life has become faster are how we have faster cars and we have airplanes and people race all the time. I would say that this is a little bit good but also partly bad for us. This is good because it means we can get things done quicker and go places far away quicker. This can be a bad thing because it makes us more impatient and lazy.
Reply
Olivia
10/16/2019 01:16:31 pm
We have a similar perspective.
Reply
Kendra
10/16/2019 01:16:48 pm
I agree with transportation.
Reply
Cade
10/16/2019 01:20:07 pm
I agree that I’m makes us very lazy.
Reply
Janessa
10/16/2019 01:20:41 pm
We have become lazy. It’s kind of ironic.
Reply
Sienna
10/16/2019 01:15:03 pm
Technology has very much become faster as well as vehicles which can be good but not when it’s faster to have disasters such as crashes and hacking in which can happen so much faster. Every year if not, every day we get faster at everything. Except the dmv that is still slow.
Reply
Dakota James
10/16/2019 01:18:12 pm
That’s pretty much what I said.
Reply
Janessa
10/16/2019 01:21:10 pm
Zootopia dmv sloths.
Reply
Trishelle
10/16/2019 01:15:12 pm
I think it has become faster because of the technology that we use today.
Reply
Kendra
10/16/2019 01:17:23 pm
Makes sense.
Reply
Carson
10/16/2019 01:19:10 pm
Wow very cool thanks for sharing.
Reply
Kendra
10/16/2019 01:15:23 pm
One way that it has changed is that we drive a lot faster to try to get where we are going super fast. We don’t stop to look at the scenery and everything goes by in a blur. It can be negative because then we don’t get to look at the beautiful world we have.
Reply
Trishelle
10/16/2019 01:16:37 pm
Yep that’s rights
Reply
Janessa
10/16/2019 01:21:45 pm
“Stop and smell the roses!”
Reply
Olivia
10/16/2019 01:15:31 pm
Life has greatly evolved due to our forwarding technology. We’ve invented electricity, vehicles, cellphones, internet, ovens, stoves, microwaves, etc. They all make our lives “faster” and easier. We have things to do things for us, so that we don’t have to spend more time on it when we have other things to do. In a way it’s been positive occurrence, because it’s proved that the human race is intelligent and adapts to fit our lifestyle. In another way it’s negative, because it’s made things easier to do bad, and it’s made the human race lazier.
Reply
Myah
10/16/2019 01:20:26 pm
You’re right. The more things we can get faster, we more lazy we get.
Reply
Micah
10/16/2019 01:21:30 pm
Good answer. Very descriptive and honest.
Reply
Keely
10/16/2019 01:15:38 pm
Life has become faster physically with technology we’ve created as well as knowledge we are able to access so easily letting us gain a better understanding of things around us increasing our mental pace. It has been a huge positive influence in this day and age but also ignorance has been said to be bliss so it really just depends on where you stand.
Reply
Olivia
10/16/2019 01:17:18 pm
I agree.
Reply
Boaz
10/16/2019 01:44:57 pm
It is interesting how we value information so much but then intentionally avoid it
Reply
Carson
10/16/2019 01:15:47 pm
Life has sped up a lot due to new technology. For example cars have gotten faster speeding up how we travel. This has been a positive change I think because it saves us valuable time.
Reply
Dakota James
10/16/2019 01:19:38 pm
You are correct my friend.
Reply
Eliza
10/16/2019 01:21:03 pm
Yeah that is true
Reply
Ady
10/16/2019 01:15:56 pm
Life has become faster in many different ways such as the cars we drive, the speed we can get information and how fast our life is constantly changing with government, people, and world development. I think it’s been a both positive and negative change since it help us contact loved ones fast but we have become to dependent of modern tech.
Reply
Keely
10/16/2019 01:17:38 pm
I agree, we have become very dependent on modern tech and inventions.
Reply
Madeline
10/16/2019 01:17:44 pm
Those are really good points.
Reply
Cade
10/16/2019 01:21:20 pm
I completely agree that we are now dependent on technology.
Reply
Nathan
10/16/2019 01:21:45 pm
I agree with you
Reply
Jonah
10/16/2019 01:16:56 pm
Communication has increased in speed. Travel has sped up as well. These are relatively positive. Population growth has increased as well. This poses a problem. Unless we find faster ways to grow and harvest food. Or to erect living new spaces. With this increase of bodies also comes an increase in waste. We are lucky that medical technology has became faster with it.
Reply
Lizzie
10/16/2019 01:21:35 pm
This is a great point you made about communication.
Reply
Hailey
10/16/2019 01:21:40 pm
I agree that the change in speed has created problems.
Reply
Tyler
10/16/2019 01:24:19 pm
Yah I thought like that to
Reply
Megan
10/16/2019 01:17:09 pm
Life has become faster because of technology and intelligence advancement. For the most part it has been a positive change but there are still negative effects.
Reply
Keely
10/16/2019 01:18:40 pm
I agree that it has been a huge positive influence
Reply
Ady
10/16/2019 01:19:31 pm
I agree
Reply
Eliza
10/16/2019 01:20:36 pm
Yeah that’s true
Reply
Hailey
10/16/2019 01:20:54 pm
I agree, it’s both positive and negative.
Reply
Beth
10/16/2019 01:23:03 pm
I agree with you.
Reply
Cade
10/16/2019 01:17:33 pm
One way is that most of us have smartphones which we can use to find a words definition instead of having to look for it in a dictionary. We can also have electricity with the flip of a switch that gives us light and warmth. These changes have been positive because they make our lives easier yet at the same time negative because it has made humanity lazy.
Reply
Lizzie
10/16/2019 01:21:56 pm
Smartphones are a great example.
Reply
Beth
10/16/2019 01:22:01 pm
Technology definitely makes life faster.
Reply
Nathan Deschaine
10/16/2019 01:18:20 pm
Our pace of life has sped up in many ways. The passing of information has changed a lot since the past century now you can send messages and information instantly where as 200 years ago you had to wait weeks for a letter to come to you by horse or boat.
Reply
Myah
10/16/2019 01:22:11 pm
It did take a long time to communicate with someone back then.
Reply
Micah Tolman
10/16/2019 01:18:28 pm
Back roads and one way streets have turned into freeways with six lanes. Standing in line at the grocery store has turned into online shopping and self checkouts. Going to the bank and asking the teller for cash has turned into inserting a chip into the ATM. The faster pace of life is causing us to have less interaction with other humans which is negative. We all need to slow down a bit and take some time to use our words rather than tapping a screen with our fingers.
Reply
Janessa
10/16/2019 01:23:59 pm
I didn’t even think about the absence of human interaction....... The robots are taking over!!
Reply
Boaz
10/16/2019 01:47:07 pm
I agree social interaction is very important and it is being very undervalued.
Reply
Erik
10/16/2019 01:18:33 pm
The world is becoming more fast paced every day almost everywhere you go. The invention of faster cars and faster software has freed up more time for people allowing them to fit more into their day which can make them more busy. This is a positive hint because people can get more done in one day but it also can make some people so busy that they have no time for other important activities like having family time.
Reply
Janessa
10/16/2019 01:18:51 pm
Transportation! It helps us get places faster, which allows us to do more things and go to more places. The internet! We can learn anything quicjoy. Before, they had to look for a book about the topic, or find someone who knew about it. Now we can look up how fast the speed of light is for our science paper and move on. (It’s 299,792,458 miles per second by the way). I think this is positive because we have more opportunities and can do I more in life, but it can also be negative. We can become exhausted and forget to take a break, and we can also forget to appreciate and take for granted what we have. Also for a pace pun, “Keep up the Pace!”.
Reply
Madeline
10/16/2019 01:20:49 pm
“Quickly”
Reply
Tyler
10/16/2019 01:23:12 pm
Yah I though of technology in the same way.
Reply
Janessa
10/16/2019 01:24:49 pm
It’s quickly........🙁
Myah
10/16/2019 01:19:04 pm
Some things that have made life faster is our education. We learn so much in such a little time of our school life. People in the olden days never leaned as much as we do- some never even new how to read or write. We can also get large amount of information extremely quickly from the internet. Massive amounts of information available for whenever we want it.
Reply
Micah
10/16/2019 01:30:13 pm
That is a very good insight. I didn’t think of that. You are very intelligent!
Reply
Ele
10/16/2019 01:19:31 pm
Life has became faster in many different ways such as, transportation, electricity, electronics, culture. The way we interpret and make things have became a lot faster and the processes of all these things have became faster. This has been a positive and negative change, these things have made us so much more lazy physically but if you think about it, mentally our brains have taken in so much more information and we have gained a lot more knowledges and quickness but yet we have became so much more lazy.
Reply
ady
10/16/2019 01:19:57 pm
Absolutely
Reply
Hailey
10/16/2019 01:20:12 pm
Life has become faster in many ways. Instead of traveling by horse or wagon, we can jump in a car or buy a plane ticket and travel thousands of miles in mere hours. Instead of taking the time to read a book, we can listen to an audio version and zoom through it faster than we would on our own. Instead of mixing batter by hand, we get out the electric mixer and do it ten times faster. While these advantages help us get things done more efficiently, they’ve made society impatient. The thought of having to walk miles, or having to read our own books, or mixing our cake batter by hand irritates us. So the change of pace in society has been both a good and bad thing.
Reply
Ele
10/16/2019 01:24:13 pm
I agree!
Reply
Micah
10/16/2019 01:26:42 pm
Exactly.This is spot on! I agree
Reply
Tyler Hilton
10/16/2019 01:20:15 pm
One way that I thought of was our advancements in technology. Some of the first computers only did very simple tasks and where the size of a room now we have devices in our pockets that have an infinite number of thing to do on them. I think that this is a positive change because a lot of technology nowadays us used for good things like medical and scientific ways but people still use it for other bad things like wars against other countries.
Reply
Jonah
10/16/2019 01:26:25 pm
I have the same opinion.
Reply
Eliza
10/16/2019 01:20:17 pm
Life is going by at a faster pace. I think that it is faster because of cars and technology.i think that it can be positive but also you miss some things.
Reply
Lizzie
10/16/2019 01:20:31 pm
The life has become so much of a faster pace because of the advancement of technology and how people are always running around. People don’t take the time to like sit down and eat dinner with their family anymore. It can either be a positive or negative thing depending on how you do it.
Reply
Ele
10/16/2019 01:24:55 pm
That’s that’s a great insight!
Reply
Beth
10/16/2019 01:21:15 pm
Our lifestyle has definitely sped up. We have more things to do, easier ways to access education, and ways to communicate. We can also buy things we need with a click of a button.
Reply
Jaylee
10/16/2019 01:21:51 pm
Some ways that life has become faster are that the way we gain knowledge faster through technology. This can be negative because we rely on technology to teach us and give us answers instead of learning on our own. We want the easy and faster route now a days.
Reply
Boaz
10/16/2019 01:36:20 pm
Technology has allowed for a much more worldwide competition instead of having just local competitors. Companies must do anything it takes to come to the front of our attention. For the most part the product of these companies are beneficial to us however there are some things that aren’t. If you look at the affect on humans it is more towards the positive but it I think it is destructive to the individual. When I lived in California there was a huge amount compition in school. For context people from Asia came to California just to go to the high school that I was going to be in. This compition for the top polarized the academics to the point where the honors and AP classes where insanely difficult and the normal classes where mindless and barely any work. There was no middle. This resulted in students that either had 4-5 hours of sleep each night purely because of homework or had no experience with work. Both are not the best way to produce productive people (hehe alliteration). Of course there will be the occasional person that thrives in that environment but it is very destructive to those that are not. Furthermore the teachers could not help those that struggled because they had an average to 30-35 people in their class. This results in stars that improve the human experience but is the result of many lives not nurtured to the fullest. An interesting trade off that is both negative and positive
Reply
Jonah
10/16/2019 01:39:16 pm
Oh shoot. That’s insane.
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
May 2020
Categories |