Observed arrival · 2026-09-29
Stone to Silicon’s technology tree
An interactive map traces technology from early stone tools through current breakthroughs, linking each capability to what came before it.
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- Readers tracing how technologies depend on earlier capabilities
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- The time axis is logarithmic, and the page marks reconstructed historical chart spans as distinct from measured data.
Field notes
The interface offers both tree and list views, category browsing, date jumping, and separate History, Curves, and Frontier sections. Its notes describe a logarithmic time axis, dependencies between capabilities, and a daily pass that uses new papers, model releases, and science news to suggest provisional milestones. Curves draw on Our World in Data and Epoch AI, alongside hand-compiled historical series; reconstructed chart spans are marked as such.
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