Rate of Technological Change. As a species, we’re biologically wired to evolve over thousands, if not millions, of years. Yet technological change is occurring at an exponential pace – and continues to accelerate. This impacts us culturally, socially, and politically in ways we do not – and cannot – fully understand. From a biological perspective, our species – and the world, for that matter – is ill-equipped to deal with such blindingly fast change.
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