Rockets and high speed railways
Banh mis and Beethoven’s 5th
Hot yoga after brunch on a Sunday morning
In the trendy neighborhood with the boutique feminist sex shop
And overpriced smoothie cart
Does anyone else look around
In wonder at all of this and think
“how the actual fuck did we get here?”
The Acheulian hand axe, the tool du jour for early Homo sapiens, was used for 1.6 million – years making it the longest running piece of technology in human history.
Within a hundred year span we developed the airplane, the radio, nuclear power, spaceflight, the internet, tamagotchis, boba, and fentanyl
Remarkable clowns
Prometheus unbound
What will become of us in the next century round?