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How dramatically world can change within a lifetime

https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/29/technology-over-the-long-run-zoom-out-to-see-how-dramatically-the-world-can-change-within-a-lifetime/

A long-term timeline of technology Our World in Data From the distant past, to our lifetime, and into the distant future. Into the future 5000 3000 2125 22,000 20.000 18,000 16.000 14,000 12.000 10,000 • 8,000 • 6,000 4.000| 2200 2175 Today's young children might live well into the 22nd century. 2150 Humanity expanding into space and settling on other planets? 2100 Human-level Artificial Intelligence? - lifetime 2075 2050 CRISPR gene editing technology and mRNA vaccines Al systems become more powerful and widely used- Smartphones First multinational space station (ISS) he Internet: the first web browser and irst website were released in 1991 1980: First eradication of a human disease (Smallpox), 1969: Moon landing- Now 2000 19751 Discovery of DNA The first computers Nuclear bomb Antibiotics (Penicillin) Television Synthetic fertilizer 1925 1903: The Wright Brothers fly the first plane Automobile Electric light Telephone 1900 The global life expectancy was lower than 30 years until about 1870 1875 Telegraph Photography 1850 Steam locomotive 1825 1800 The first vaccine, Microscope 1500 - Printing press •Scientific Revolution Glasses Steam engine the smallpox vaccine The year O 1950 From 1800 to now: To show the many inventions in this period of rapid technological change I stretched out the timeline. -1000 Gunpowder The first windmills The last twelve millennia: Each line represents 1000 years Paper- Beginning of the Iron Age - 2,000 years BCE 4,000 years BCE 6,000 years BCE- 8,000 years BCE* -1000 years BCE Around 3,300 BCE the Stone Age - which lasted 3.3 million years - ends and the Bronze Age begins. Around the same time the wheel was invented. - Earliest evidence of writing -9,000 years BCE The Agricultural Revolution happened around 10,000 BCE The spiral shows the distant past: Each turn represents 200,000 years 300,000 years ago: the origin of our species, Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago: beds 1 million years ago: First use of controlled fire and cooking 60,000 years ago: bow and arrow From OurWorldinData.org 3.4 million years ago: First tool use, by ancestors of our species 43,000 years ago: the oldest musical instrument, a flute Licensed under CC-BY by the author Max Roser
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