The Rapid Transformation of Humanity

The world changed faster in the last five hundred years than in all human history combined.

It kicked off with the Renaissance, where art and science finally woke up. Then the printing

press made ideas go viral before the internet existed. That led to revolutions, first against the

Church, then against kings in France and America. Suddenly, steam engines turned

everything industrial, but that power trip spiraled into two massive World Wars and a Cold War standoff.

We went from handwritten manuscripts to space travel, proving that once humanity hits the

gas, there is absolutely no hitting the brakes.