Look at it from an asleep person’s perspective, though: it can easily be rationalized as the inevitable march of progress. Moore’s Law explains the technological advances. They’ll think social media and such things are simply organic outgrowths from inexpensive computing technology and information transfer.

Many people, quite reasonably, assume that these things have just happened randomly. That is, to some extent, how things work in nature- think Brownian motion, extinction events as natural selection, etc.

It takes a unique mindset to see the guiding hand behind it all until it’s so overt than everyone can see it. That’s why it’s taking a while to lift the curtain and show everyone the Wizard of Oz