The response function to various technologies across cultures is really fascinating. Some societies adopt certain technologies rapidly. It's like a key in lock, as if this particular piece of tech was specifically designed for it. Perhaps there are "shadow techniums" - technologies that exist implicitly, formed by the specific shape of a particular civilizational culture. The result is that when a particular innovation is introduced, it feels entirely natural, as if it has it had always existed - and indeed, in the sense I am discussing here, arguably it has And just as two puzzle pieces can be jammed together without being perfectly fitted, so some technologies feel awkward in certain cultural contexts. They never get fully digested. There's a positive and negative to this. Social antibodies to technology can be healthy. You have a natural herd immunity to the worst outcomes. But if a technology is wholly native, it can burn like wildfire through a virgin forest. There's nothing to stop it. It only burns out once all the timber has been consumed I think some Asian countries might be like that with the screen and the phone and the app. Whereas these things haven't produced the same level of acceptance in the West. They feel a bit like a foreign object within the body politic. Like any such, it generates an inflammatory immune response, and ends up ultimately rejected East Asia - especially China - has (so far) won the 21st century. But there can be downsides to winning (same was true for Europe and industrialization, which otherwise feels like a phase transformation just waiting for the West all along)