Abstract
Everywhere we hear that we are living in an era of revolutionary upheaval, especially in terms of technological development. Everything around us is rapidly becoming “digitized” as routine everyday and professional tasks are replaced by automated electronic services. There is a sense that change is inevitable and accelerating. However, does the emotional and informational backdrop of these changes truly reflect reality?
In fact, the technological changes of recent decades are proceeding much more slowly than those that took place, for example, in the mid-20th century. Back then, in a matter of years, humanity moved from the first ballistic missile launches to the full-scale conquest of space; television and civil aviation became widespread, enabling the modern technological level of movement of people and information across the entire planet. It is hardly possible to seriously compare all of this with the refinement of mobile communication technologies – perhaps the most important and, to some extent, comparable achievement of the 21st century.
