Interesting.
I wonder if there have been times past when things changed as fast as they do now?
No, because the velocity of change has only accelerated with time.
People in the Indus valley lived for generations for hundreds if not close to a thousand years in the same house and little changed.
But the pace of change in the middle ages was faster than in Sumerian times and the pace of change in the Victorian era was faster than in the middle ages.