What stands out to me in your recounting is: the duration between change and full impact keeps getting smaller.
Broad strokes:
Consciousness -> 100,000 years
Civilization -> 10,000 years
Industrial Revolution -> 100 years
Digital Revolution -> 50 years
AI Revolution -> 10 years
Singularity -> 1 year
Kurzweil’s main point that I recall from his book is that the rate of change is shrinking and eventually becomes near zero so that change happens so fast there is no non-change normal.
Broad strokes:
Consciousness -> 100,000 years Civilization -> 10,000 years Industrial Revolution -> 100 years Digital Revolution -> 50 years AI Revolution -> 10 years Singularity -> 1 year
Kurzweil’s main point that I recall from his book is that the rate of change is shrinking and eventually becomes near zero so that change happens so fast there is no non-change normal.