A light bulb went off in my mind today: 1879 is simultaneously a millennia ago, yet just like yesterday. The years are really just blips on the radar - time moves fast, and never stops moving.
146 years ago we got the lightbulb. Where will we be in another 146 years?
Has time always moved this fast or is it accelerating?
It is accelerating and what you are describing sounds like ‘Future Shock’. Too much change over a very short time frame.
What happens next in the ‘Future Shock’ scenario?
Things ‘seem’ like they’re getting faster and faster as technology rapidly improves and people become less able to cope.
“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.”
Read The Sovereign Individual. We're entering the information age and leaving the industrial age.
Imagine living 100 years.
The world you grow up in, is not the world you leave.
