The Great Acceleration
For most of human history, the rhythm of progress was measured in what lung unit of time instead of years?
Millennia
Which 1957 soviet launch was the first artificial satellite and pushed humanity to reconsider the limits of possibility?
Sputnik
What discovery of DNA’s shape sparked the genomic revolution and made humanity an “architect” of evolution?
The double-helix structure
The internet is called the “global nervous system” and primary infrastructure for what process?
Modern globalization
Cleopatra lived 2,500 years after the Great Pyramid, but only 2,000 years before what 2007 invention?
The iPhone
What term describes the new and quick rate at which human innovation occurs?
The Great Acceleration.
The Space Race eventually led to what orbiting lab that became a place where former adversaries work together?
The International Space Station
In a few short decades, we moved from identifying the code of life to doing what to it?
Actively editing it
By eliminating the friction of distance, the Internet has done what to the world?
”Flattened”
We are chronologically closer to Cleopatra than she was to who?
The architects of the Old Kingdom
Which term describes how we've condensed more change into the last century than in the 25 centuries between two Egyptian leaders?
Chronological Compression
The ISS is described as a rare “sanctuary” of what, connecting nations through scientific objectives?
The application of genetics transformed medicine from reactive practice into this kind of targeted science?
A science tailored to the individuals biological script
The “So What” factor of connectivity is the unprecedented spreader of what?
Information
It took our ancestors millennia to perfect what tool, used to illustrate the slow pace of past progress?
The bronze blade
The “Great Acceleration“ marks the point when the velocity of what decoupled from the pace of human biology?
Technological change
Surviving the vacuum of space drove the invention of new materials that have permeated what industry on Earth?
The terrestrial industry
What field was revolutionized by DNA analysis, providing an empirical standard for identification?
Forensic science
Thanks to the internet, a remote researcher can access the same genomic data as a scientist in a prestigious what?
Laboratory
The legacy of our era is described as having uprecedented what?
Velocity
We are the first generations to live through multiple what in such a short time?
Technological epochs
Satellite constellation created the essential backbone for what 3 modern systems: navigation, weather forecasting, and data synchronization?
Global Infrastructure
Genetic engineering bolstered crop resilience, providing a critical buffer against challenges from what growing issue?
A growing global population
What turned the world into this kind of place where ideas are refined and distributed in real-time?
A single, massive laboratory that is the Internet
While the older days were the “shadow of the pyramids”, we are now in the what?
“The era of the pixel”