Defining a Millennium: We are speeding up, not time

If one of the products of contact with strangers is change, technological advancement, evolution even then we are in an age right now of a monumental surge in the amount of contact strangers have with each other. The internet could be comparable to the Silk and Sand Roads and the Indian Ocean Trade Routes of the third wave civilizations. All of these readings have made me start to wonder that it is not time speeding up or going by faster than it used to, we are speeding up. We are the ones that are going by faster. When I think about how long it took the Paleolithic people to create change, 240,000 years to advance stone tools, and even the Neolithic people moved at such a slower pace than we do today. It is the the fact that our technology is changing so rapidly that leads to the illusion that time is speeding up.
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