Multiple technologies that have developed in parallel/separately are now suddenly starting to converge and accelerate not only each others development further but also enables new ideas and approaches.

Hence, we likely experience a "hockey stick" moment in tech.

And technological changes have always changed society too; how we life, institutions etc need to adapt to the new realities fueled by new tech.

What's different imo is the speed of change (technological advancement), which has got too fast for people/society to adadpt within one to two generstions. Historically, change happend more slowly and gradually which allowed the young to adopt and become profiecient in the new tech while the older generation to die off.

Let's see how we address this challenge this time.