Very good point made at a launch event yesterday for UCL’s new Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education - we might teach the Industrial Revolution in schools as a critical transition period, but really, it’s 1950 onward (the “Great Acceleration”) that really made the biggest difference. Why aren’t we teaching that in history classes?
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Nah. 1950 might have been a slight breaking point because of semiconductor, but the exponential trend was clear and constant, so I don't see a difference.
And yes, people are thought the technological explosion as well as singularity theory, but the singularity theory is thought in a sci-fi near future way, instead of the real scale, that begun with "spoken word".
