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		tondi on Nov 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Timeline of the Human Condition Interestingly, accounting the duration and density of events: Empires and conquests - 3000 years, Industrial Revolution - 300, Scientific Revolution - 200, Technological Revolution - 50 Every year we go through as much as 4x events than in 1945, and as much as 60 medieval years (!) squished in one year.

rsynnott on Nov 4, 2021 [–]

I mean, there’s presumably a strong recency bias here.

cosmobot on Nov 4, 2021 | [–]

Don't forget a correlating exponential growth in human population.

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