I think humans judge time based on passages of emotional state. There are cycles that are linked to the rising and setting of the sun and that gives us the sense of days. There are passages that are linked to the waxing and waning of the moon and that gives us the sense of the months. There are similarly seasons that suggest years. But we have gotten very good at media and riling people into heightened emotional states, to attempt political change. And that ability to tap into emotion short-circuits our understanding of time. So where we would usually go through--to throw out a number--5 emotional upheavals very closely linked to time between each technological innovation, now there are several artificially induced emotional responses that are completely unlinked from time, and we have no true sense of the amount of time that technological upheaval now takes.

It is not possible that technology is progressing slower now than before. The more we innovate, the more innovation becomes possible. What can only be true is the changing in our perception of the amount of time between innovations.