And there are many other theories as well. Technology means tools and gadgets, such as a spear, wheel, canoe, compass, automobile, jet plane, or hydrogen bomb. They have at the same time desired to avoid change. But technology and stability are incompatible. Once a community has accepted the automobile, for example, they are forced to accept a revised social order.
People begin traveling more and discovering other ways of working and behaving.
Nationalities begin to intermarry where previously they did not speak. Everyone spends more time away from home. Change may come gradually or suddenly, but eventually it always comes. When faced with a choice between things as they are, and a new tool, gadget, or piece of machinery, Man has always chose the new technology. Most everyone might agree that viewing history in this way is interesting.