Is innovation really accelerating? A sourced look at how fast technology reached people from 1926 to 2026, with measured trends in AI, chips, genomics, solar, space and electric cars.

1 points•dan_ahmadi•about 4 hours ago•0 comments•
It feels like innovation/change is increasing at a breakneck speed these days. I was wondering... how does the current pace compare to the last 10, 20, or 100 years? I pulled together some of our biggest milestones as humans and created a light visualization tool to explore it.

Disclosures: AI was used in creating this, including the research

Code is open source: https://github.com/danahmadi/a-century-compressed

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