History is one giant pattern of accelerating change...so it will only get faster

Most of life's history was just single cells in the ocean. Most of human history was spent lingering in the stone age. Each era is shorter than the last. again and again. in biology and human history. and the reason is simple. The thing that is building up. is complexity (cell, organism, brain, language, writing civilization, computing civilization) The thing pulling us in that direction. is information ( DNA, intercellular signalling, neural signalling, culture, code) The two form a feedback loop on each other. like gravity and mass when a dust cloud collapses into a star.