There was this graph about the time between major inventions, going back to agricultural stuff 10.000 years ago, and it like halvened each X years quite reliably, we are in the part where in some years it might touch like minutes. Interesting.

The Brooklyn Bridge and the battle of Little Bighorn happened the same year. And there were Native Americans who fought in the battle that were still alive to see man walk on the moon. So in the span of one lifetime we went from Custard’s last stand, to one giant leap for all mankind.

We also created nukes and religion. So there's that too.

It's been 53 years since we stopped sending humans to the moon. Now we have the world wide web, touch-screens, voice recognition, human simulcra, and CRISPR.

Time wise, the moon landing is located roughly in the middle between the first image, and now. It happened almost 60 years ago (59).

We have since invented the internet, and a lot of great ways to waste our time

The Babylonians knew a * b = 1/4 * ( (a+b)^2 - (a-b)^2 ), and used tables of 1/4 * x^2 to do multiplication by addition. It took three thousand years for Napier to discover modern logarithms. The slide rule was invented eight years later.

Now picture it without fossil fuels giving us a 100:1 EROEI

MFW I’m in a technology singularity racing full bore toward its conclusion.

There is no individual. There is only network. System. Systems create. They output. They produce. They produce well and tremendously when the system is healthy. Make the system healthy for once. I mean again.

My grandfather lived from 1871 to 1971; from Kitty Hawk to one small step on the moon.

This humanity fuck yeah stuff really rings hollow when you look at the trajectory of the world. What does any of this matter if we just kill ourselves by ransacking the planet or blowing ourselves up?

The chariot lasting as high tech for 3800 years has some part to do with the dark ages.....