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Started reading Smil‘s „Energy and Civilization“ recently and the sense of acceleration as you enter the last two centuries is almost palpable, absolutely mind-
by bschne 5y ago
Started reading Smil‘s „Energy and Civilization“ recently and the sense of acceleration as you enter the last two centuries is almost palpable, absolutely mind-boggling once you start noticing it.
As an aside, IIRC there‘s a „timeline of the universe“ on the outside of a spiral ramp at NYC‘s museum of natural history that does a similarly good job at driving this home.
- rapnie 5y ago"Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time" is also quite mindblowing and impressive. https://youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA https://youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
- dredmorbius 5y agoA very strong second on this recommendation. Recognising the absolutely definitive role of energy on progress and history is a critically important advance in understanding mechanisms of history.
- xapata 5y agoWhoever made that NYC museum ramp really loved quasars. She probably wrote her doctorate thesis about quasars.
- chasil 5y agoThis will outlast us, beyond comprehension. Proton decay, and the death of everything that we can know, is just the beginning. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA