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GIULIO BONASERA ILLUSTRATION: NAUTILUS MAGAZINE

October 2, 2018

Giulio Bonasera illustrated the cover, a full page and a series of eight spots for Nautilus magazine on the theme of human craft, the building of things by hand, and how the invention of tools has changed the course of human evolution.

The author paints a picture of an engineering revolution that is laughably simple, profound in its implications—and, crucially, slow. It’s a remarkable fact that we took hundreds of thousands of years to move from a hand axe to a hafted arrow...

Given a constant rate of human evolution, and an exponential rate of technological evolution, we can continue to run experiments with an ever-greater risk profile; we can seek to constrain our new tools until we have understood and adopted to them properly...

Or—as Elon Musk has famously argued—we can join our technology instead of trying to beat it. Through even more technology, like neural computer interfaces, we can merge ourselves with our instruments and hitch our rates of evolution together.

Tags: Giulio Bonasera, Cover Illustration, Editorial, GIF, Magazine

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