Imagine for a moment that the 300,000 years of our species didn't last for millennia, but just the final 24 hours of a year, counting down to midnight.
From the moment we woke up as Homo Sapiens at 00:00 AM, we spent the vast majority of the day walking, surviving, and observing a world that barely changed.
This animation invites you to feel that dizzying acceleration. Prepare to watch how, after a whole day of silence, the future explodes right before midnight.
Look to the right. Look what happens when we approach the present.
The line stops walking and starts climbing.
First with the printing press, then with steam... and suddenly, the roof breaks. In the last pixel of this image—the equivalent of a sigh in geological time—we have compressed electricity, computing, the internet, and artificial intelligence. This is not a slope. This is a vertical wall.
We are living in an era of change, where the speed of progress has surpassed our biological capacity to adapt.
