A Review on Technologies Evolving Faster than Human Biological Evolution
Technology is evolving demonstrably faster than human biological evolution . While human evolution is a slow process of genetic changes occurring over millennia, technological development follows an exponential curve, with accelerating growth in areas like computing power, AI, and biotechnology. Contrasting speeds of evolution Technological Evolution Biological Human Evolution Pace Exponentially accelerating, with breakthroughs happening faster than ever before. For example, it took 2.4 million years for ancestors to control fire, but only 66 years to go from the first flight to a moon landing. Very slow, with significant changes occurring over tens of thousands of years. While the rate has accelerated in recent millennia due to cultural shifts, it is still orders of magnitude slower than technological progress. Mechanism The deliberate and cumulative process of human innovation and engineering. It is driven by intentional design, scientific discovery, and the ...