ParanoidObsessive posted... Meanwhile, for those of us who were born in the 70s and 80s, it mostly just feels like everything's mostly the same, only slightly better (or sometimes worse). We never really got our radical culture-changing innovations until the Internet and smart phones became omnipresent, and even now we're still sort of in the beginning of the process of watching them shift how we see the world through our own sociocultural lenses (and with things like dating and shopping and how we work, live, and entertain ourselves shifting once again).
I'd argue that the internet and every technology that has derived from it has vastly shaped our society already. Google and Apple have a ubiquitous stranglehold on nearly everything we all do. Youtube has made and shaped careers that didn't exist twenty years ago. You don't need to be lucky or incredibly talented or attractive to be a successful actor or a musician or influencer anymore. Social Media has been huge in shaping how we see the world and how information is disseminated. Hell, we wouldn't even be communicating with each other without it.
What we're really starting to see for the next societal shift is through AI and I deeply fear this...