The Acceleration Nobody Can Explain

For centuries, human progress has been relatively linear. The invention of the wheel, the printing press, and the steam engine was revolutionary for their time and prompted societal shifts. However, these advancements were incremental and occurred over centuries of gradual development, which you could say culminated in Faraday’s Dynamo back in 1831. Then we get to the 20th century, and life changes. Knowledge and the pace of innovation began to accelerate at a rate that was unprecedented. Today the advent of Artificial Intelligence is upon us and a new age of knowledge storage and utilization which seemed fictional at first is now our reality, whether we like it or not? But what does that mean for you and me and what does that mean for the world? Are we truly advancing or setting ourselves up for doomsday?