Comment by keernan

One of the most impactful books I ever read was Alvin Toffler's Future Shock.

Its core thesis was: Every era doubled the amount of technological change of the prior era in one half the time.

At the time he wrote the book in 1970, he was making the point that the pace of technological change had, for the first time in human history, rendered the knowledge of society's elders - previously the holders of all valuable information - irrelevant.

The pace of change has continued to steadily increase in the ensuing 55 years.

Edit: grammar