The absurdity of the self-important masses exclaiming, 'The most important development in all of history (AGI, etc.) is happening right now during my lifetime!' is remarkable. None of them even dare to consider that reality is far, far weirder than their conveniently linear-time, crypto-religious models suggest.
"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size)." - Robert Anton Wilson