Agreed. The argument of "we've always had XYZ and we've done fine" always conveniently ignores acceleration/rate-of-change as a factor -- as if the printing pre

Agreed. The argument of "we've always had XYZ and we've done fine" always conveniently ignores acceleration/rate-of-change as a factor -- as if the printing press, radio, tv, internet, computing, mobile revolution, AI etc are distinct events that we "got through" with no relation to each other, when in reality they are just cycles in an ever tightening feedback loop.