Everything got easier.
Six decades of ordinary progress and the everyday things it left behind.
1970s
Machines took over more of the physical work of daily life.
1980s
Electronics began doing the waiting, calculating, and remembering.
1990s
The systems around daily life crossed from mechanical to digital.
2000s
The internet made distance, delay, and searching feel optional.
2010s
The phone absorbed the map, the store, the camera, and the empty minute.
2020s
AI began taking on the work between the question and the answer.
Now
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