The Engine and the Wire

For thousands of years the fastest thing in your life was a horse and the brightest was fire. Then, in a few short generations, everything accelerates — steam, then electricity, then a wire that carries your voice across an ocean, then a machine that carries your whole mind into a pane of glass. You were born into the strangest sliver of the human story, the few centuries where everything changed at once. And nobody alive can tell you where the acceleration stops — or whether it does.