As you approach the horizon of a black hole with the singularity in the middle of it, you get stretched out like taffy. And I think many people are experiencing something like this today. If the cutting edge of technology just keeps accelerating, it will be understood by fewer and fewer people who have a grasp of what's actually going on. But the force is ever more powerful, so in a sense there'll be more and more people who will be completely torqued around by some huge event which they cannot understand. A diagram I use a lot is a cross-section of a healthy civilization, in terms of the pace of change of different elements of civilization.
Fast stuff starts and stops, and goes off in various directions.
There's continuity in the slow stuff. With any healthy, dynamic, durable, adaptable system, shocks to the system get absorbed at the intermediate levels of governance and infrastructure, and then made integral to the whole system. Libraries have a role which reaches across all the layers. It's an interesting span, an interesting mission. The fast stuff gets all of the attention but the slow stuff has all the power.