- Dec 7, 2008
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It's my random intrusive thought for today. Hehe 
Think about how slowly human progress used to happen from 2 million years ago.
For thousands of years, change was very slow and gradual. It literally took 1000s of years between new inventions. We learned to use fire, developed agriculture, invented the wheel, and eventually built civilizations. Then came the Industrial Revolution, and suddenly the world started changing much faster.
After the internet became mainstream in the 1990s, it felt like something big happened every decade, smartphones, social media, cloud computing, AI...
Now it feels like there's a new breakthrough every week sometimes on daily basis.
Sometimes I wonder... are we living through the fastest period of human progress in history?
So where do you think we'll be 100 years from now?
On a low key I hate this fastest progress
Think about how slowly human progress used to happen from 2 million years ago.
For thousands of years, change was very slow and gradual. It literally took 1000s of years between new inventions. We learned to use fire, developed agriculture, invented the wheel, and eventually built civilizations. Then came the Industrial Revolution, and suddenly the world started changing much faster.
After the internet became mainstream in the 1990s, it felt like something big happened every decade, smartphones, social media, cloud computing, AI...
Now it feels like there's a new breakthrough every week sometimes on daily basis.
Sometimes I wonder... are we living through the fastest period of human progress in history?
So where do you think we'll be 100 years from now?
On a low key I hate this fastest progress