A world timeline created by T. E. Sanders to encompass a set of speculative fiction stories about the ascension of man. From the distant past to the rush of the future, observe as the forces of man's intellect, and ego (mostly ego) lead him down various intertwining, but separate paths, never straight, never predictable, and never ending where one might expect.

Consider this summation by Mark Twain on the subject of future speculation:

"In the space of one 176 years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That's an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that 742 years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo (Illinois) and New Orleans will have joined their streets together...
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."