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He sensed, and then came to know, that the social problems of what was being called “postindustrial” society would be different from those that came before.

In “Klara and the Sun,” his first novel since winning the Nobel, the topography of a technologically advanced, postindustrial society is discreetly mapped through the observations of Klara, a humanoid robot charged with keeping a sick teenager company.

Jean Baudrillard, the French theoretician, postulated that simulated experiences were replacing real life in postindustrial society.

These parties have been captured by what Thomas Piketty, in his forthcoming book Capital and Ideology, calls “the Brahmin left” – winners in the meritocratic race fostered by postindustrial society, who have lost touch with those who are less connected, mobile, and well read.

It described the state of our era by building out Lyotard’s observations that society was becoming a “consumer society,” a “media society” and a “postindustrial society,” as postmodern theorist Fredric Jameson points out in his foreword to Lyotard’s book.