Our species has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, give or take a bit. Looking back from the year 2100 and possibly a few decades earlier, it will be noted that for just a few generations – for an almost vanishingly brief fraction of our species’ lifespan – it was temporarily normal and unremarkable for one person to be able to haul thousands of pounds of stuff around whenever they pleased. And then we will be right back where we started, able to carry what we can carry on our backs and sometimes make use of a draft animal, and if we’re lucky a cart or a boat.
Our species has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, give or take a bit. Looking back from the year 2100 and possibly a few decades earlier, it will be noted that for just a few generations – for an almost vanishingly brief fraction of our species’ lifespan – it was temporarily normal and unremarkable for one person to be able to haul thousands of pounds of stuff around whenever they pleased. And then we will be right back where we started, able to carry what we can carry on our backs and sometimes make use of a draft animal, and if we’re lucky a cart or a boat.