The ills of the modern world

There is no time in this day and age to sit and talk to people. The modern world demands constant work with modern technology keeping us in touch with the office at all times. This is undermining the family and our health. If only we could go back 400 years to a time when the world moved slowly and there was a moment to connect to our parents. Pepys' Diary: Friday 17 April 1663:

"So home and to my office till night, and so home to talk with my father, and supper and to bed, I have not had yet one quarter of an hour’s leisure to sit down and talk with him since he came to town, nor do I know till the holidays when I shall."