Earth
is becoming something
different,
something more.
For millions of years
proto-humans strode
its bounties until
Homo sapiens
arrived.
Once here,
humans took millennia
incrementally building
improving
its lot in life.
Step by step,
developing new ways
of improving,
one change
building upon another.
Cooking food,
better nutrition,
better weapons
for hunting and protection.
Hunter-gatherers
working as teams
for better outcomes,
feeding and enabling
larger populations.
Development of farming,
enabling villages to
take root.
More improvement,
villages become towns
then cities,
city states to countries.
Communication develops,
improves,
writing, printing books
for the masses,
new ideas,
morse code, telephones.
The planet
communicates.
Medicines,
industrial revolution,
humankind
spans the globe.
Technology improving,
quality of life
improving,
living longer.
Science, ever probing
every aspect
pushing the boundaries
of capabilities.
Traveling further
and faster,
trains, automobiles,
planes
Spacecraft.
Computers,
internet, global neural net,
global mind,
artificial intelligence,
human cyborgs.
The pace of change
ever quickens.
Humankind,
on the cusp of change
so explosive
the consequences of which
are unfathomable.