People often point to the current centenarians and contemplate the dramatic scope of how the world changed from the horse-and-buggy to the internet.What if that type of change happened every ten years? Every five years?
Today with the advent of the internet and wireless communication the time lag of transmission is near zero. Given these rapid timescales, we can expect the emergence of novel and world changing events to occur more and more frequently. Dramatic change will be the new norm for our lives in the future.