may be the fact that i work at a technology company (sort of) and Moore's law during my lifetime has seen computers grow from like 16MB to petabytes and petabytes of processing power
the pace of technological change has so outpaced our ability of our culture and of human beings to react to it, meaningfully wrangle it, and ultimately, properly govern it
it's to me, other than climate change, going to be the biggest issue for millennials to deal with
actual social change has happened lightning fast by comparison in some areas. i'm sure it doesn't feel that way for a 40+ year old homosexual but we went from 80s AIDS crisis to 90s relative cultural acceptance to 00s gay marriages to 10s trans rights activism. compare that to social justice issues that are basically stuck in reconstruction era civil rights law, and it does feel like you can have transformational social change quickly.