Human inventions unfold on a one-day clock toward midnight
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OUR NOTEA three-minute animated film that maps human invention onto a single day, from early stone tools at 11:48 to the printing press seconds before midnight and protein folding in 2020, then turns to imagined futures with an original score.
I gave Claude fable 5.5 one prompt: a video of all human progress, then 30 years into the future.
It came back with a 3-minute animated film and an original score. No footage, no stock music.THE PROMPT
Human progress and the futureThe creator didn't publish a prompt for this one. The post text is below.
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