For millions of years, change was glacial. Generations lived and died experiencing roughly the same world. Then something shifted. The pace of transformation began to accelerate.
Technology compounds. Each innovation enables faster innovation. Writing accelerated thought. Printing accelerated writing. Computers accelerated calculation. AI accelerates discovery. And the gaps between these milestones shrink.
You live in the inflection point—the moment when the curve bends upward, when change itself changes. Your grandparents could assume the future would resemble the past. You cannot.
This acceleration is not external to you. You are part of the accelerating system. Every search you make trains the algorithm. Every choice you share shapes the culture. Every connection you form alters the network.
The question is not whether to participate in acceleration—you already are. The question is whether to participate consciously or unconsciously, wisely or blindly.
And perhaps the deepest question: as the pace of change exceeds human comprehension, how do we maintain wisdom? How do we ensure that increasing power serves increasing flourishing?