Has there ever been so pronounced of a shift in life and lifestyle, with so little recognition of the fundamental change?
The world is fundamentally different than it was ten years ago. Communication is different, technology is different, everything is changing.
But people seem to... not have noticed.
Perhaps it's because the change is so distributed?
Consider:
iPhone: January 2007. 5 years old.
YouTube: February 2007. 5 years old.
Skype: August 2003. 9 years old.
Gmail: April 2004. 8 years old.
Those are all game-changers individually. Collectively, a whole lot of change is happening.
But because any individual change doesn't seem to be so tremendous, people don't seem to realize what's happening.
This might be as big of a deal as anything since the printing press came around. And no one seems to have fully noticed.