American researchers Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler have developed a unique web resource, Calculating Empires, which presents a panorama of humanity's technological progress over the past five centuries. This ambitious project, which began in 2023, has only recently attracted widespread attention from the Internet community. This is reported by Mail.ru.

The site offers an interactive timeline spanning the period from 1500 to the present day. It is divided into thematic sections reflecting different areas of human activity. Here you can follow the path of technological development from the simplest mechanisms to modern smartphones and artificial intelligence systems.

Calculating Empires aims to cover key innovations in a wide range of fields, including biotechnology, user interfaces, algorithms, communications, data processing, education, medicine and law.

The project focuses on four main themes: communication, computation, classification and control, exploring their relationships and development over the centuries.

The creators emphasize that their work offers an opportunity to consider modern technological achievements in a broader historical context. They also note the subjectivity and inevitable incompleteness of the project, given the vastness of the material covered and the complexity of historical processes.