The major changes to &quot;consumer&quot; behaviour were the Aricultural and Industrial revolutions. I&#x27;m unsure when the so-called &quot;Information revolution&quot; began - with the first writing, which was Sumerian accounting records (certainly data storage and processing)? Perhaps markets and the &quot;consumer&quot; were the most fundamental change.<p>We try to accomodate technological change - shape it to existing consumer behaviour - rather than change everything.<p>A great example is Moore&#x27;s Law. The mind-boggling doubling of transistor density fortyearly is now routine. We&#x27;re actually <i>unsettled</i> by the hiccups at 10nm.<p>Thought experiment: can you imagine a new technology which changed costs so drastically that current societal structures (municipal; national; consumer&#x2F;market; informational) could not accomodate them, and instead would require another revolution? [limited by imagination, of course]<p>At some point, we&#x27;ll have succeeded at modelling human nature, and we&#x27;re self-limited from further change. Aliens might do things differently (or might not - it coud be that the greater part of humanity is just cooperative intelligence, common to all sapients).