The pace of modern living

It's all "go", isn't it? If you were born late in the last century or since, you have it 'in your genes' to live life at a fast pace; something has to be happening all the time, barring sleep, and preferably at flat-out speed. Computers, transport, Olympic sports, eating (fast-food), communication, building and so on are the big speed challenge. What's responsible? The word 'technology' was barely part of the vocabulary thirty years ago - advances in it have swung the living-speed curve up at an almost alarming rate. Whole new forms of enterprise/employment have emerged. Will the the curve steeple, and life's pace become virtually meaningless for us? It was said or written in recent times that a particular launched space probe will reach it's destined target 78.000 years from now. Really, no-one can seriously relate to such an alleged outcome. Can we, in fact, take such a prediction at all seriously? People crunched numbers and came up with the above time-span, but, for all we believe living on the edge is what it's about currently, some concepts have little or no hold on reality; and, it could be said, start to push the boundaries of sanity. Well, that's life! Or is it?