> How is this any different than the industrial revolution ushering in a new age, or for that matter any technology that creates huge efficiencies in labor? In

> How is this any different than the industrial revolution ushering in a new age, or for that matter any technology that creates huge efficiencies in labor? Indeed it isn't. It's just that at each technological breakthrough, a number of (vocal) people thinks that it's a new type of revolution, ignoring those of the previous centuries /shrug.