Pulled from a model and not double-checked:

  • 100,000-50,000bce spoken language
  • ~10000bce agriculture, animal domestication
  • ~65000bce la pasiega cave paintings
  • ~3500bce bronze
  • ~3300bce early swords
  • ~3200bce written language
  • ~3000bce wheel
  • ~1500bce iron
  • ~1500bce hinduism
  • ~1300bce judaism
  • ~600bce buddhism / confucianism / daoism
  • ~500bce zoroastrianism in persia
  • ~500bce democracy (athens)
  • ~300bce shintoism
  • 200bce -> 200ce roman engineering (aqueducts)
  • ~30ce christianity
  • 100ce paper
  • ~600ce islam
  • ~800ce arabic numerals / algebra
  • ~1000 guns in china
  • 1191 eisai brings Chan buddhism to Japan, from China
  • ~1200 guns in europe
  • ~1200 universities
  • ~1440 printing press
  • ~1450 telescope
  • 1543 copernican heliocentric model
  • 1687 newton principia mathematica
  • 1776 steam engine
  • 1783 first powered steamboat (france)
  • 1804 first steam locomotive
  • 1821 electric motor (faraday)
  • 1856 steel: bessemer process (affordable)
  • 1876 telephone (bell)
  • 1879 lightbulb (edison)
  • 1885 first gasoline car, Karl Benz Patent-Motorwagen
  • 1903 first powered flight, wright brothers
  • 1908 mass-produced car (Ford model T)
  • 1928 penicillin (fleming)
  • 1945 nuclear weapons
  • 1945 eniac (computer)
  • 1953 dna (watson and crick)
  • 1957 satellites (sputnik)
  • 1969 ARPANET
  • ~1971 gold standard -> fiat in USA due to Vietnam War
  • 1990 web (tim berners lee @ cern) http and html
  • 2007 iPhone
  • 2009 bitcoin
  • 2012 CRISPR gene editing
  • 2015 ethereum
  • 2017 transformers
  • 2018 alphafold
  • 2020 gpt3
  • 2020 mrna vaccines
  • 2022 chatgpt
  • 2022 jwst
  • 2023 ozempic

Please let me know if there are any errors or obvious omissions.

upcoming?:

  • fusion
  • room-temp semiconductors
  • efficient wireless power transmission?
  • cheap space travel
  • quantum computers
  • bci
  • carbon nanotube mass production
  • aging reversal
  • better energy storage than batteries