In the early twenty-first century, innovation in information technology are creating a similar sense of accelerated change and diminishing distances...

In the early twenty-first century, innovation in information technology are creating a similar sense of accelerated change and diminishing distances in a more interconnected globe. What are similarities between your own period and period between the 1780s and 1830s, when the large numbers of people first began to think about the power of technology to change the way of society, was organized and to regard history as a headlong rush into the future? What are differences?