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Make things better by making better things.
For most of human history, change was slow enough that a person could die in roughly the same world they were born into. Stone tools, fire, clothing. Followed by a long, quiet stretch.
Then came wedges and pulleys and wheels. Farming. Animals pulling what people used to pull.
Until...
Ships. The printing press. Steam. Factories. The internet. Smartphones. AI.
The list compresses as you read it, which is the point. It took a long time to get here. It won’t take a long time to get to whatever’s next.
We assumed (or were sold on the idea) that technology was supposed to give us time. It did the opposite. Not because it failed, but because it doesn’t just speed up tasks—it reshapes what we organize our lives around. Each new technology is a new template for what a life is supposed to look like.
Industrialism taught us to build our lives to resemble the factory—and we got it. Now we're building our lives to resemble something else, and we'll likely succeed there too.