1776: the engine starts
Watt's engine did more than pump water out of mines. It set the tempo for everything that followed.

For 250 years, each generation could tell the next: learn at school, work for a salary, and tomorrow will be better than today.
That promise ran on growing complexity and ever-better technology compensating for it. Little by little, finance came to set its pace: from gold to paper and finally digital money, it became the measure of almost every human exchange. And in the end, most of it was handed out in offices.
Terminus is about the moment that promise stops being obvious. We do not sell an answer. We go back through history to see how we got here, when such situations have happened before, how these eras end. Stepping out of the station, we then look at the ways out that history already offers us.
Watt's engine did more than pump water out of mines. It set the tempo for everything that followed.
Each new generation of technology costs more for a smaller gain. How far can that go?
Every problem solved adds a layer. One day the next layer costs more than it returns.