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FUTUROLOGY. IF THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF PEOPLE WERE COMPRESSED INTO A SINGLE DAY. EVERYTHING YOU SEE ABOUT YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IN THE LAST FEW SECONDS. 15,000 YEARS AGO – Man plants a seed. AGRICULTURE & DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS BEGINS. 5,000 YEARS AGO MAN BEGAN TO WRITE.
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IF THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF PEOPLE WERE COMPRESSED INTO A SINGLE DAY . . . EVERYTHING YOU SEE ABOUT YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IN THE LAST FEW SECONDS
15,000 YEARS AGO – Man plants a seed. AGRICULTURE & DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS BEGINS
3000 YEARS AGO THE WHEEL METAL HORSE POWER
1000 YEARS AGO FOSSIL FUELS – first coal 500 YEARS AGO THE PRINTING PRESS
300 YEARS AGO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
THE SAFETY PIN MASS PRODUCTION SPECIALIZATION URBANIZATION
FIFTY YEARS AGO YOUR GRAND PARENTS
ALL OF THE ABOVE – and more - CAN BE FOUND IN ANY ONE OF THE THREE PRODUCTS BELOW
Change is like waves that are increasing in size and momentum
17,000 B.C. – a man plants a seed and the agricutural revolution begins • 1700 A.D. • The Industrial Revolution 1970 - The Age of Technology THE SPEED OF CHANGE TODAY
Can we predict the future? How might we predict the future?