something tells me this is the era in which the ideas in 'revolutionary wealth' have become the norm. Alvin Tofler was working towards this and was calling it just when the web was taking off. The coda of the second wave, in the third wave book, was epiphanic, enlightening at the time I was a struggling first-jobber sharing an apartment suffering commute and office hierarchies and wondering why do all this

 rushkoff's concept of the current generation coming into what was exclusive eclectic and almost a crime for commoners in the previous era, is coming to a boil now