Comment on Might be time to put your life in perspective
Allero@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Think of that from another perspective.
Assuming human lifetime to be 70 years:
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0.4 lifetimes ago, the term “smartphone” was first used
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0.5 lifetimes ago, Internet became a thing
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1.7 lifetimes ago, first airplane rose in the sky
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3 lifetimes ago, we got the first Turing-complete computer
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6 lifetimes ago, we started discovering electricity
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8 lifetimes ago, Middle Ages came to a close
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20 lifetimes ago you’d be at the end of what we now as antiquity.
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75 lifetimes ago you’d be at the beginning of Ancient Egypt and the early Bronze Age.
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105 lifetimes ago you would witness the beginning of first human civilizations.
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150 lifetimes ago people invented agriculture
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4300 lifetimes ago humans as we know them appeared
History is speeding up, and today one human life is enough to witness a change our ancestors wouldn’t see in a millennia.
Sure, we are, as always, grains of sand in the desert of eternity, but we are grains that matter. That make a change. Every day.
piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
It’s one thing to know this, but seeing it succinctly like this is rather profound