By Futurist Thomas Frey
The Question That Never Stops
Who are your parents?
Easy question. Two answers.
Who were their parents?
Still manageable. Four people.
Who were their parents?
Eight people. You probably know most of their names.
Who were their parents?
Sixteen people. You might know a few.
Keep going back ten generations—1,024 ancestors. Twenty generations—over a million. Thirty generations—more than a billion.
And here’s the thing: every single one of those people existed. They had names. They lived lives. They made choices that led directly to you sitting here reading this.
But you don’t know who they were. The records stopped. The trail went cold. The genealogy ended.
Until now.
Continue reading… “Part 3 – The Whole Earth Genealogy Project: Mapping Every Human Connection”