The shakeup that society will experience from computers and the Internet has not even begun to quake things to their core. The Industrial Revolution invented t

The shakeup that society will experience from computers and the Internet has not even begun to quake things to their core. The Industrial Revolution invented the idea of the adolescent as a separate class of human. The technological future might very well remove it. While there might arguably be a need for adolescents to be physically strong and capable of physical endurance to work assembly lines and similar.... what teenager couldn't do mental work? They write code on their free time, but can't do it for pay? Unlikely. More likely they will begin illegally working 'under the table' online and eventually be made official, alongside enfranchisement in terms of suffrage and general societal respect. And that's just one little change. The Industrial Revolution also changed how families were structured, how children were parented, how society saw itself, how homes were built, and a multitude of other things. We'll see similar changes... eventually. Maybe. We're a bit more self-aware this time... and there are old cronies with empires on the line larger than wars have been fought over before... so we shall see.