Why Did Human Progress EXPLODE in the Last 100 Years — After 10,000 Years of Slow Progress?

Why Did Human Progress EXPLODE in the Last 100 Years — After 10,000 Years of Slow Progress? Why did human progress explode in the last 100 years, after humans spent 10,000 years building civilization at a crawl? Humans had cities, writing, mathematics, ships, aqueducts and waterwheels thousands of years ago, yet ordinary life changed remarkably slowly. Then, in little more than a century, we got airplanes, computers, the internet and AI. This video explains why progress stayed slow for so long, and what finally changed. ▶ Start with the first chapter of the story: Why Did Ancient Human Progress Suddenly Explode 10,000 Years Ago? https://youtu.be/4jjI71UHutc?si=_2ujpEnObchGQ9kY Ancient humans spent hundreds of thousands of years building knowledge slowly. Then farming, villages, trade and writing started a loop that eventually built civilization. But even after thousands of years of that loop, progress was still constrained by how slowly knowledge could spread and how much work humans and animals could physically do. This video follows what happened when those limits finally began to break: Why Hero's steam engine in Alexandria and Bi Sheng's movable type in China changed almost nothing for ordinary people How Aristotle's falling-stone mistake survived for nearly 2,000 years in a world where knowledge was copied by hand and rarely tested Why muscle power kept nine out of ten people working in the fields How Gutenberg's printing press made knowledge arguable, and therefore correctable How Newcomen and Watt's steam engines broke the muscle limit How Edison's Menlo Park laboratory turned discovery into an industry How AI is now starting to help create new knowledge, not just store it Why it didn't happen in Alexandria: both locks had to open at the same time If you've ever wondered why human progress exploded in the last 100 years, why the ancient world never had an industrial revolution, how the printing press and the steam engine changed history, why technology