Robin Dunbar famously suggested that the average human maintains about 150 social relationships. The total number of humans who have ever lived is somewhere north of 100 billion. A 1017-year road trip would be long enough to replay the lives of every one of those people in real time—in a sort of unedited documentary—and then rewatch every one of those documentaries 150 times, each time with a different commentary track by the 150 people who knew the subject best. By the time you finished watching this complete documentary of human perspective, you’d still be less than 1 percent of the way to
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