The more things change, the less likely it is that they happened in the past 20 years or so.

Title: You Say You Want a Devolution?
Context: The only thing that stays the same is constant change. Unless you are talking about the last 20 years or so apparently.
Synopsis: Anyone remember the stylistic and cultural differences between the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s? Huge right? Now how about the differences between the 1990’s and today? Not so much right? This is odd. We live in a time of some of the most transformative technological change in human history, yet it seems that we have frozen social and aesthetic progress to a snail’s pace. Music, film, TV, clothes and indeed all of design has gone from massive vacillation across time to a comparatively modest delta through the past 2 to 3 decades. Why? It seems that the technological flattening of time, where we now have access to the sum history of humankind – including our full media back catalog, causing us disproportionate nostalgia in certain areas while in others we stream forward at an ever increasing rate. The danger this represents is the potential for any stagnation in our stylistic selves to infect our progressive and innovative egos. In essence, “think different” may not only be a clever tagline, but it may represent the dying savior of our age.
Best Bit: “But in the arts and entertainment and style realms, this bizarre Groundhog Day stasis of the last 20 years or so certainly feels like an end of cultural history.”

via vanityfair.com