This ambitious project is a visualization depicting the evolution of technology, social structures, and important inventions over the last 500 years.
The timeline on the site is divided into various topics such as communication, computing, classification and control.
Reckoning Empires covers everything from the first church bells to modern smartphones and artificial intelligence. The project explores how technology has shaped the development of colonialism, militarization and automation, and shows how these processes continue today.
The project’s authors acknowledge that their work cannot be complete due to the breadth of topics and achievements, but they attempt to present the technological current state within a deep historical context that reflects the long trajectory of the development of human ideas and infrastructures.
Source: Ferra
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