When I was still at school, our teacher drew a diagram on the blackboard to show how, over the course of history, the time gaps between groundbreaking inventions have tended to get shorter—though not in a smooth, uniform way, but in bursts. (Back then, the internet and mobile phones didn’t exist yet. 🥹)
Recently, I’ve been thinking about that diagram quite often. I tried to recreate it—using AI, of course.