During most of the time there was little macroscopic direction-sense about such things and they will be in this much better concept forever. A change, within only thousands of years, from a past of three or four billion years of vague influence to a future of as many billions of years in the future is big nexus, a major scale inflection.in evolutionary time.

Just after Apollo and other first space flight comments like this were heard, though they were often prefaced with something like, “Oh, yeah. That’s cool. Space and time are curved (or whatever else was being commented on). Yet as decades pass, many of those early realizations that seemed more or less commonplace are sinking in as utterly un-guessed throughout all past history. and their impact on the new century and much much more is sinking in. As time passes, the future becomes deeper and deeper compared with history, dwarfing individual lifetimes.