MINUTES of a MONDAY #74
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Brain Food > The Difference
“Depending on which scientist you ask, Homo sapiens emerged between 200,000 and 315,000 years ago. Let’s split the difference, go with 257,000, and say that there have been about 9,500 generations of humans (the average generation throughout human history lasts 26.9 years).
Our way of life was dominated by hunting and gathering for 9,100 of those 9,500 generations—96% of the existence of our species.
Then, about 10,000 years ago, agrarian societies formed. Farming replaced hunting and gathering. (It was disastrous for our health). In the 18th century, society shifted again, toward industrialization. And now, in the last thirty years or so, we’ve ushered in another shift, with computerization, the internet, and artificial intelligence, a society defined by interconnected information and an unprecedented flow of ideas.
If the history of humanity were condensed into a single 24-hour day, this is roughly what it would look like:
The Hunter-Gatherer Age—23 hours and 3 minutes
The Agrarian Age—55 minutes and 32 seconds
The Industrial Age—1 minute and 17 seconds
The Information Age—11 seconds
More than half of the world’s population is under the age of 30, meaning that more than half of us have only lived in those 11 seconds—an era that is, without question, the weirdest period in human history.”
on why we are different from all other humans in history
Soul Food
“the average citizen lives more comfortably now than kings did a few centuries ago.”
Ruth Veenhoven from: Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature
LOL
Enya Martin on competition between couples:
Appendix
“Fascinating that the Irish are third for internet connection in the survey but 16th for screen time. So less addicted perhaps than connected. Above all, the headline quote about our online lives is: “Irish people spent their internet usage searching for ‘News’, ‘Weather’, ‘Google’ and ‘RIP’.”
on Ireland’s favourite internet searchesAOB
I’m trying out this new audio feature (at the top☝🏽) to go along with the minutes every week.
It’s kind of like me leaving you a voice note that you can take with you on a walk or wherever you might be.
Let me know what you think won’t you?
Have a great week and mind how you go out there - Niall