Got that? It’s only my own latest bump against change; most likely to many of you this is old stuff. But the changes are accelerating at a pace that’s hard to keep up with. Gas lights were replaced with electric lights. Big deal. It was still the same function, just a different delivery. Cars replaced horses. Stuff still got moved.
But computers and the web have pushed us to previously unimagined places, places we didn’t know we wanted to be. Those tiny “phones” we all carry in our back pockets can do way more than the systems that took man to the moon in 1969. People vacuum their houses with little robots, answer their own doorbell from thousands of miles away, turn on the lights, turn on the heat, turn on the car with a voice command.