The AI and technology today have developed to such an extent that looking back, the fall of the Qing Dynasty was just over 100 years ago.
The evolution and accumulation of humanity over the past few thousand, even tens of thousands of years, have paved the way for this short span of over 100 years.
The Industrial Revolution, electricity, the internet, computers, and today's AI, each major transformation has compressed the time scale.
In the past, a technology might take decades to slowly permeate society; now it only takes a few years, or even less.
In just one generation, the world's modes of production, communication, power structures, and individual destinies have undergone earth-shattering changes.
It happens so quickly that history has not yet had the chance to settle into common knowledge before reality has already entered the next version.
Perhaps we are truly living in an extremely rare time window, the steepest segment of the acceleration curve of human civilization.
Standing here, it is a great fortune, but also a significant pressure.
