Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. View the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power.

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Calculating Empires

i have no idea what i just found but i’m glad i found it

Not only is this cool to look at, it’s also amazing how all those technologies evolved pretty much at the same time. It also clearly shows how growth is exponential. Great work

i literallly cried. So glad i got to see this.