Does History Accelerate Monotonically? Two X Users Debate the Pace of Tech Progress
dbasch · x · 2026-10-04
tszzl argues the most striking feature of history is acceleration: from Earth's geologic ages to the complexity of life to human socio-technological development, the time unit of history keeps shrinking.
dbasch pushes back: experiencing fast times now doesn't mean history speeds up monotonically — for all we know there are infinite accelerations and slowdowns ahead. A brief but substantive exchange on whether technological progress inevitably keeps accelerating.
Related event: tszzl Claims Every Week Is History; dbasch Pushes Back(5 posts)→
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