← The Autonomic WheelDraw your wheel

A 300,000-year-old nervous system, in a world built yesterday.

Scroll through the road your body was made for, and the one it woke up on.

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Put it all on one road.

Three hundred thousand years, drawn as a road. Everything with a clock, a factory, a screen, or a notification happens in the last sliver.

300,000 years ago
farming
The red sliver, magnified 1,500×:
1826 · first factories
1950 · TV
1995 · web
2007 · smartphone

Your body spent 99.93% of its history on the brown road.

It hasn't had time to change. It's doing exactly what it was built to do, on a road it was never built for.

Tap along.

Every signal that arrives wants a response. Tap when a signal reaches the line. The road starts slow and speeds up the way it actually did. Space bar, click, or tap.

Savannacaught 0 · missed 058 bpm

Ready?

About ninety seconds. There's no way to win the last part. That's the point.