Read sideways
Timelines.
Scroll-led timelines of the fields I keep returning to: artificial intelligence, neuroscience and robotics. Each is a horizontal strip of checkpoints, read sideways.
41 checkpoints · 1947–2026 · updated July 5, 2026
Timeline of AI
A scroll-led timeline of artificial intelligence from early machine intelligence work in 1947 to integrated AI systems in 2026.
40 checkpoints · 1873–2026 · updated September 2026
Timeline of Neuroscience
A scroll-led timeline of neuroscience, from Golgi’s silver stain and the neuron doctrine through the action potential, imaging, optogenetics and connectomics to present-day cell atlases and brain-computer interfaces.
40 checkpoints · 1898–2026 · updated September 2026
Timeline of Robotics
A scroll-led timeline of robotics, from Grey Walter’s tortoises and the first industrial arm through subsumption architecture, the DARPA challenges and learned locomotion to vision-language-action models and production humanoids.