Technology can be a barrier to stability
If you told people in the 1960s that homes today would have multiple televisions and the ability to watch any show, any time, you'd probably have faced a lot of skepticism. In the early 1900s, if you told people that automobiles would become indispensable to modern life and that many American households would have more than one, it would have been hard to envision. Inventions like these were available at first to a limited number of people soon became important pieces of modern life.
Source: hotsr.com
