<story><title>Life is Short (2016)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euske</author><text>As a side note, not only one&amp;#x27;s life is short, but the entire human history is short. I&amp;#x27;m over 40 and it struck me that if I repeated my life 50 times it would already go back B.C.! We&amp;#x27;ve invented and developed ALL the things in between. I don&amp;#x27;t think I could live 50 times and do that myself. That was some amazing achievement, humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattbierner</author><text>In 2016 I did a small project that visualizes time as a series of hypothetical cross generation conversations (such as a 5 year old listening to an 80 year old&amp;#x27;s stories) [0]. Really fascinating to see how recent seemingly ancient events such as the American civil war or the invention of the printing press are when examined in these terms.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mattbierner.github.io&amp;#x2F;forward-propagation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mattbierner.github.io&amp;#x2F;forward-propagation&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Life is Short (2016)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euske</author><text>As a side note, not only one&amp;#x27;s life is short, but the entire human history is short. I&amp;#x27;m over 40 and it struck me that if I repeated my life 50 times it would already go back B.C.! We&amp;#x27;ve invented and developed ALL the things in between. I don&amp;#x27;t think I could live 50 times and do that myself. That was some amazing achievement, humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subcosmos</author><text>Just imagine the increase in human lifespan that can occur in the next 100 years, given how much it has changed in just 50 ...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Life_expectancy#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:Life_Expectancy_at_Birth_by_Region_1950-2050.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Life_expectancy#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:Li...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>