Agriculture changed the way we grow food from about 10,000 years ago.
The industrial revolution changed the way we use energy and make things from 250 years ago.
Modern medicine only really got going around 150 years ago.
First anaesthetic? Described only in the mid 19th century. I did not want to live before that..
Germ theory, as the cause of disease, was laid out by the end of the 1800s.
X-rays were ‘discovered’ in 1895. We could finally see what was wrong with our painful joints..
The first antibiotic, penicillin, was derived from common moulds less than 100 years ago (in 1928). Astounds me that I could've been born a century ago and died from a common infection..
These innovations- medical and non-medical- and many more since, have combined to change the way we live and survive.
Roughly doubling our time on planet Earth
Incremental improvements that- far from being universally applied- have helped our human species live longer, and healthier, lives.
If you're needing a pick me up this morning, consider this..
Life expectancy has, on average, increased by 3 months for every year we’ve lived since the mid-1800s. That's staggering..
I’d more than likely be dead by now if I was born back then. And there's this..
A baby born today will live 5 minutes longer than a baby born yesterday.
On average, many of us will live well into our 80s, with many so-called ‘millennials’ living to be centenarians.
