I wonder how Vonnegut might have coped with the acceleration of change we cope with in our modern dilemma.

It’s just a hell of a time to be alive, is all—just this goddamn messy business of people having to get used to new ideas. And people just don’t, that’s all. I wish this were a hundred years from now, with everybody used to the change.

– Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

He wrote so much about time, traversing it and getting unstuck in it, that I think he might have shrugged and stuck to an earlier motif: So it goes.