‘Using a time compression device, to help comprehend the ACTUAL #cosmic time spectrum we are a part of, imagine the #BigBang occurred 13yrs ago…

Earth would have come into existence 5yrs ago.

the meteorite that killed the Dinosaurs off would have hit 3wks ago.

the first Apes, that walked upright, 3 days ago.

the first Homo Sapiens, 53mins ago.

modern Industrial Society, 6secs ago.’ #CynthiaStokesBrown

#BigHistory #UTOK #NaturalIntelligence #Ecology #cosmology #complexity #foresight #Earth

Formation or emergence not of individuals but of level playing fields is the defining principle of being in this universe. #BigHistory

@_L1vY_ it was just another WFH day until #BigHistory started happening. One of the many things that sadden me re: elmo killing the birdsite is how I watched #Jan6 unfold as on-site reporters live tweeted the whole thing. #EugeneGoodman going hero mode was the “oh sh*t” moment for sure. The #crowdsourced #insurrectionist hunting afterward was a thing of beauty.

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Every culture, religion, and community has its narrative of how this world originated. This narrative tells the people in that community why our landscapes look the way they are, why we have different seasons, why the sky rains, and, more importantly, how we humans came to be. Without an explanation of what makes us us , one is vulnerable to feelings of misery and hopelessness. History has been... https://www.worldhistory.org/review/303/origin-story-a-big-history-of-everything/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #Anthropology #BigHistory #HistoryOfScience

History is driven by surprising events, forecasting is driven by predictable ones.

To this I amend "as practiced". Approaches such as #PeterTurchin's #Cliodynamics or #DavidChristian's #BigHistory, along with other forms of #Systems, #Complexity, #Evolutionary, and #Information based approaches suggest that there may be lenses through which both the past and future become clearer.

I'd suggest that this observation might be most useful for identifying potentially poorly considered history and forecasting practices.

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