I recently created an image that shows some of the important events in our natural history…: what our history would look like if, instead of our 13.81 billion years, we simply scaled everything down to fit in just one calendar year. The results are stunning, and do a tremendous job of putting our entire past history into a time perspective that we can relate to.

The funny thing is, that only explains how we got here. What about the other side of the coin: where we’re headed? (Medium).