Giulio Bonasera illustrated Nautilus' cover story for the article about human craft, building things by hand. The story’s author, archaeologist Alexander Langlands, paints a picture of an engineering revolution that is simple and crucially slow. Art Director: Francesco Izzo
"It’s a remarkable fact that we took hundreds of thousands of years to move from a hand axe to a hafted arrow. (...) Given a constant rate of human evolution, and an exponential rate of technological evolution, we can continue to run experiments with an ever-greater risk profile; we can seek to constrain our new tools until we have understood and adopted to them properly; or - as Elon Musk has famously argued - we can join our technology instead of trying to beat it. Through even more technology, like neural computer interfaces, we can merge ourselves with our instruments and hitch our rates of evolution together." - Michael Segal, Editor-in-Chief Nautilus Magazine
