2022 by the numbers: The wildest milestones of the year
A few remarkable stats from a year of marvels.
The end of a year is an opportunity to behold new achievements, superlatives, world records. But 2022—marked by war, chaos, an unsteady return from lockdown—included a few milestones that felt even more momentous than usual. On the technology front, machines capable of conversation and image generation crept up on us, but there were also dramatic leaps in science and engineering which, in spite of some dire circumstances, promised, once again, a future of more possibility and abundance. And then there were other kinds of big numbers, mostly reflecting the kind of human hubris that could help achieve that future, or destroy it.
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