If you step back and look at the big picture, it is a unique time. There’s an accelerating rate of change for technology‘s_law and population growth. Both of those have exploded in the last few decades, and with exponential growth the changes will only get faster.
The industrial revolution had a lot of the same things going on. In the process, the western world moved from feudalism to capitalism. My favorite author, Kim Stanley Robinson, says in one of his novels that each type of society has elements of the one that came before and after it. So an agrarian, feudal society would have leftover elements of a hunter-gatherer society in it. And capitalism has echoes of feudalism- most of the resources are concentrated in the hands of a few people.
It took hundreds of thousands of years to go from hunter-gatherers to farmers, and then ten thousand years to go from farmers to an industrial society. It’s been a couple hundred years from the beginning of the industrial revolution to the communication-centric society we have today. We might be in the process of moving into a new era, where the generation or two after us would barely recognize our lifestyle. I mean, think of the differences between today and the 1980s or the 1950s.