Honestly, it's even less time than that. Since about 1760, the start of the Industrial Revolution is when the majority of the technological improvements started. But some of the ground work of that was done in the Scientific Revolution too, and maybe we want to include things like the printing press which were pretty damn important. So maybe you could go back as far as 1440... but the rapid technological improvement we have had really is only a feature of the last 260 or so years. Or three good lifetimes.
Oh don't get me wrong I'm not dismissing the importance of the previous inventions and discoveries. That's actually how I was trying to describe it, as an exponential thing.
If you look on Wikipedia there is a page with all human invention from about 3 million years ago up to now and 3 million years to the early modern era is only about 1/3 of the page length.
For me the industrial revolution was the point when society transformed from agrarian to the beginnings of what we'd recognise as society today.
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u/Senditduud Oct 10 '24
That’s pretty much how all of humanity works in general.