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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 9084893" data-attributes="member: 28487">It is not the rate of technological advance that would be the issue, nor even the environmental consequences of industrial activity. They were starting to grapple with the latter in the Victorian era. No, it is the social consequences of the technology. The idea that there would be substantial populations that do not agree with their neighbours on the basic facts of what is going on.The idea that a person on a yacht in the middle of the Atlantic could order goods and have them delivered to New York and be waiting for their arrival.The idea that the US President could personally oversee an assassination in realtime at the other side of the world and the fallout of that. They would get a lot of the first order effects but the secondary and tertiary effect that we are aware because we are living through it but often do not notice without a lot of deep thought.Most of what I mention above are primary effects but think of all the stuff that need to be in place to enable that thing to happen. I am sure there is more stuff that I will not think of at this moment but will occur to me in the shower next week.I guess what I am really getting at if the examples I gave above were given to you in the seventies you would be able to work out all the tech minimally needed to bring this about but would not imagine the economic and social changes that would occur as a result of these enablers.</blockquote>

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