Alvin Toffler’s 1970 bestseller Future Shock argued that almost all the social problems of the sixties could be traced back to the increasing pace of technological change. The endless outpouring of scientific breakthroughs transformed the grounds of daily existence, and left Americans without any clear idea of what normal life was. Humans were not psychologically prepared for the pace of change, Toffler wrote. He coined a term for the phenomenon: accelerative thrust. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit