This is very true, my dad for instance never worked with a computer at work (He is turning 80 in 2 weeks time and he went on retirement when he was 58, only 22 years ago!!), today it is unthinkable, if computers are down most of us don't know what to do at work!! I only got my first cell phone in 1999, and it could only phone!! Look what they can do today. Internet and social media only came recently and is forever evolving, amazing times lies ahead!!
Indeed, the rate of change will only accelerate and unfortunately, unless something changes the guiding principles, ie unless profit and power are deprecated and more lofty goals elevated, we are clearly on a path of self destruction.
The finely tuned environment we find ourselves in on Earth, which facilitates life includes finely tuned parameters which severely restrict our scope of future development to life sustaining and enhancing concepts and we are failing to realize and govern our development according to the dictates of those parameters.