Subtler Realms
Happy New Year 2025 or rather Dwapara 325! We’re three centuries into the 24 centuries of Ascending Dwapara Yuga, and a century beyond the 200-year transition period from Kali Yuga.
We can really get a sense of the progression from the brutally materialistic and physical to subtler realms even within our lifetimes across three interlocking examples that tie to changes in the makeup of Fortune 100 businesses.
Time
Harrison brought us the modern clock in the early 1700s, at the dawn of Dwapara Yuga. Accurate timepieces then were huge and expensive, about calculating longitude for ships. WWI bought the technology to wristwatches for the masses, initially to align troop movements and marching artillery strikes. The 1980s saw atomic clocks in space, guiding smart munitions and today powering cellphones and navigation.
Compute
The Manchester Baby in the late 1940s ushered in the realm of modern digital computing. At first hardware was seen as the focus of computing, with machines the size of rooms with local terminals. By the 1980s, software on disks and CDs was the focus, with low-cost PCs in homes and businesses. By the 2000s, online services became the focus with the hardware and software in the cloud, accessible by voice from household devices like cellphones and TVs.
IP
Where once business titans of Ford and Kellogg were all about large factories, inventories, and armies of workers in the early 1900s, three quarters of the value of today’s corporations are now in intellectual property (Rembrandt’s in the Attic quote). Companies like Acorn that once made 8-bit computer hardware in the 1970s and floppy disk based software in the 1980s today license just their IP of sophisticated ARM (Acorn Research Machines) chip designs that power today's cellphones.
Pictured is a modern mechanical wristwatch that was robust enough to accompany climber Nims Purja in his record-breaking ascents. It is named in homage to the Supermarine Spitfire, which advanced aviation in the 1930s and held back Kali Yuga forces from WWII and into the Cold War.