[madaxe_again]

I think this is two phenomena being observed as one.

While there’s certainly currently an accelerando going on in terms of knowledge growth and change in many fields, there is also bias built into us and our perception of the world - every human has a tendency to be surprised by the degree of change that occurs in their lifetime - we are raised with the world presented as-is, with a static set of truths, yet the only constant thing about the human world is change.