What If The Tech Revolution Was Just An Illusion Of Progress?

Ross Douthat: “What if the feeling of acceleration is an illusion, conjured by ourexpectations of perpetual progress and exaggerated by the distortingfilter of the internet? What if we — or at least we in the developedworld, in America and Europe and the Pacific Rim — really inhabit an erain which repetition is more the norm than invention; in which stalematerather than revolution stamps our politics; in which sclerosis afflictspublic institutions and private life alike; in wh