The Great Acceleration

Since the moon landing, human beings have made incredible discoveries about our solar system and far distant universe, realising dreams once thought impossible.

From the first transistor to deep learning networks, the rise of computing power over the last 50 years has been so phenomenal it?s changed everything from the way we communicate to how our appliances interact.

Over the last 50 years the world has experienced an energy revolution, driven by an urgent need to green the grid and save life on Earth as we know it.

Rising demands for food, water and materials have pushed resources to the limit and at the same time waste is piling high - triggering a new wave of innovation to make more out of less.

From filling in the missing links to creating a new species, in the last fifty years scientists have solved some of the biggest mysteries of evolution.