During meetings, we not only surreptitiously write and check emails, but we also chat on the phone, listen to music, read material online, and engage with coworkers. Reading newspapers and listening to music, surfing the web and watching football, cooking and keeping up with the news keep us occupied at home. a global event The news broadcasts never seem to meet the habit&#39;s requirements. Our &quot;multi-function&quot; with a constant feed of stock prices, breaking news, weather forecasts, and so forth.<br />Acceleration is also required by manufacturers. The Producers With The Quickest supply chains are the ones that win, not the ones with the greatest products. Today&#39;s businesses, according to author and supply chain specialist Rob Rodin, have little choice but to connect to the &quot;three unquenchable wants of business - free, perfect, and instantly.&quot; Broadband computer networks, 24/7 delivery, RFID tags, and &quot;proper&quot; production procedures all contribute to making &quot;immediate&quot; demands a reality. (literally &quot;just-in-time&quot;: &quot;the correct product &ndash; in the right amount &ndash; at the right place &ndash; and at the right time&quot; is a contemporary manufacturing idea). Leading companies like Dell and Toyota capitalized on sociologist Alvin Toffler&#39;s prediction from 1965: &quot;As the tempo of business accelerates, every unit of time becomes more important.&quot; A journey to the store may take a whole day a century ago, but now, most of us can shop &quot;just next door.&quot; Before the Great Acceleration in 1986, there were more schools in America than retail malls. Today, the figure is Shopping malls outnumber schools by a factor of two. Stores in these shopping malls provide three times as much stuff as they did in 1986, and because to advancements in the payment system, clients no longer have to wait in line for payment as they did previously.<br />&nbsp;