Enivio - Anything and Everything

I had a thought the other day - With communication as vast as it is now, is society more productive? What I mean specificall is if the average person gets more done in their lifetime than the average person did say 20-50-100-200 years ago? 150 years ago people would travel days to visit friends. Now we jump in a car and can get from LA to San Diego in 3 hours.  In order to sell goods, they would travel into town several hours every day. Was that efficient? Probably not. But what constitutes getting more done exactly is an even better question.
Are we as a people moving too quickly? Are we living so long we are accomplishing too much in our lives? Or is there any limit to what we should be able to do in our lives? I personally love to get as much out of every day as possible, because death is such a looming thing. So I smell the roses carefully.

In your opinion are we more or less productive on a daily and yearly scale than people were decades ago without the type of rapid communication we have today? Are we moving parallel? Advancing? Slowing down?