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  "title": "I feel like the world is changing insanely fast.",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1w090ua/i_feel_like_the_world_is_changing_insanely_fast/",
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  "upload_date": "20260827",
  "published_at": "2026-08-27T22:43:57+00:00",
  "transcript": "It’s only been 26 years into the 21st century, but we’ve already gone through the internet revolution, the mobile revolution, logistics innovation, autonomous driving, and now AI... whew;;;\n\nEven when compared to the major milestones between 1900 and 1926, the 21st century so far feels like it's on a whole other level. \n\nThough, if we're strictly talking about the scientific world, I guess the Theory of Relativity alone pretty much blows everything else from the 20th and 21st centuries out of the water.\n\nWhat do you guys think?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[75 upvotes] If you took an average person from 1900 and dropped them into 1926, the physical shock to their senses might actually be greater than moving someone from 2000 to 2026 in my opinion. \n\nWe went from horse-drawn carriages and steam trains to the mass adoption of automobiles and the birth of aviation.\nCities changed rapidly from gas lamps and coal fireplaces to widespread electrical grids.\nThe world went from purely physical mail and telegraphs to commercial radio broadcasting (instant voice transmission to millions) and the beginnings of television even if In avery very primitive way.\nA very important one is that we had the invention of modern plastics (Bakelite, 1907), blood typing (saving millions in surgery), and the initial foundations of antibiotics.\n\nAnd if we look at 2000 to 2026 we now obviously have great improvement such as cloud digital infrastructure. Modern medicine with techniques such as gene editing, smartphones, algorithms and now AI like you said. \nThe thing is that the evolution in the 1900s was physical and structural. However. The ones we're currently undergoing is a lot more... Well... Digital and cognitive. It's about information which leaves less of s trace of \n\n[47 upvotes] and when AGI comes out the world will change more than ever before. \n\n[16 upvotes] Internet was more a 90s thing\n\n[11 upvotes] Personally I feel like smartphones were a big change, but then we had about 10-15 years of similarity until AI started getting big within the last year or two especially ",
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