Jacques on Nostr: “Society is always changing, but its rate of change has only been accelerating ...

“Society is always changing, but its rate of change has only been accelerating […] in part because change is cumulative […] It is when the industrial revolution came into being that this rate of change became so rapid that it was visible to the population within a single lifetime. People realised that not only are things changing but that they will continue to do so after their death… And it was at this time that Science Fiction emerged as a literary genre. – Isaac Asimov