I've heard a saying that as technology improves, the rate of at which it improves tends to increase dramatically. To expand on the great points you made in the article, there's not all too much technological change between the years of 1700 to 1800, however if you compare the same length of time between 1800 to 1900, there's a drastic change in the type of society people were living at the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. And the rate of that change has only become more quicker and quicker (ex. the change between 1980 and 2000 as mentioned in the article). It's gonna be interesting seeing what kind of tech will help continue to drive us, I prefer that it be tech that pushes us to a more decentralized future 👌