The pace of change in today's society is nothing compared to what it was in the late 19th century

On occasion, you'll read these polemics that are all about the dizzying pace of change in the modern world and about how life is accelerating and technology is constantly up-ending everything all the time time always oh my god! But I don't buy it. It seems to me that the pace of technological and societal change has, if anything, slowed down over the la…