Depends how you define interesting.
Interesting things happen every year.
- The arrival of home computers
- Challenger explosion
- Chernobyl
- Fall of the Berlin wall
- 9/11
- Fukushima
- The arrival of easy to use AI (Plus many more things I’m not thinking of right this moment)
It’s a whole lot less than 20 years, that’s for sure.
Only took a few months for a ahem certain western country to deteriortate into pseudo-lawlessness
It’s fascinating, isn’t it. To me, the most important parts of history are whenever some small event dominoes into rapid & drastic change. CoVID and the 2024 US election are recent examples of this, but all throughout history we see that leaders and insurmountable empires are toppled by one small thing, or the actions of a relative “nobody.”
So unfortunately OP’s premise is wrong - there’s no measured rhythm to historical events, as any one of us could change the world tomorrow.
Well depends on what you would categorize as a significant and interesting event.
Like with my terms we already got numerous amounts of significant and interesting events:
- Transformer models, albeit it mostly makes our lives worse (except for medical imaging probably)
- The first transcontinental surgeries were done in this decade
- We got a picture from an actual black hole
- 2025 is the first year when have produced more energy from clean + low-carbon sources than coal
I feel pretty certain that we will find an answer within 20 years with the James Webb telescope if we truly have an 8th planet or not.
