Stephen Fry on the Future of Humanity and Technology

What if every technological revolution follows the same pattern — a box opened, a gift received, and a price paid?

In this infographic essay, we trace Stephen Fry's sweeping argument from his 2017 Shannon Luminary Lecture at Bell Labs: that from Gutenberg's press to the internet, humanity has always greeted transformative technology with awe, then alarm, then adaptation.

The question he leaves us with isn't whether to open the box — it never was — but whether we can hold onto hope long enough to find what's waiting at the bottom.