Alexander(@alexanderrX_):it’s crazy how fast things are moving right now. someone born before ww2 has watched commercial planes, men on the moon, computers, the internet, smartphones, and now ai you talk to, all arrive in their one lifetime. and the pace only picks up. that same person was 60 before they saw the internet go mainstream. everything since, google, iphones, ai, landed in what for them is basically the final stretch. for most of history people lived and died and nothing changed at all. not one new thing between their birth and their death. and here we are casually speedrunning the biggest inventions ever inside a single lifetime.

2026.08.24 12:02

it’s crazy how fast things are moving right now. someone born before ww2 has watched commercial planes, men on the moon, computers, the internet, smartphones, and now ai you talk to, all arrive in their one lifetime. and the pace only picks up. that same person was 60 before they saw the internet go mainstream. everything since, google, iphones, ai, landed in what for them is basically the final stretch. for most of history people lived and died and nothing changed at all. not one new thing between their birth and their death. and here we are casually speedrunning the biggest inventions ever inside a single lifetime.