It used to be easy to put off the future until after you retired or died. We could live with the world we had long enough to avoid dealing with significant cultural or technical change. Sure, teenagers might listen to loud music or have long hair, but that didn’t mean you had to.
And there were parts of the world where the future would arrive five years after it had reached California or Kenya. Plenty of time to prepare.
But now, thanks to the network and to wired culture, that insulation is gone.
The future is here. It’s not going away. And a new future is going to be here tomorrow.