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That's NordVPN.com slash evolution of horror. Technology predates us. Around 3 million years ago, our ancestors learned to use tools for the first time.

Human beings have only existed on this planet for 300,000 years, and it wasn't until 20,000

years ago during the Neolithic Revolution that we began using clay for pottery and bricks,

and we invented the wheel.

Around 8,000 years ago, humans designed systems of irrigation. Six thousand years ago,

sailing ships were invented, allowing travel. Three thousand years ago came the Bronze Age, which

saw the production of metal tools. Two thousand years ago, alchemists in China invented gunpowder.

A thousand years ago came the invention of the magnetic compass.

Roughly 500 years ago saw the invention of the telescope. Mid-18th century saw the start of the Industrial Revolution,

which saw the inventions of steam engines, locomotions, mass printing, spinning looms, telegraphs, combustible engines.

The mid-1800s saw the invention of photography and cinema.

And of course, the 20th century saw innovations the likes of which humanity had never seen.

Airplanes, computers, penicillin, and by the mid-1940s, the atomic bomb.

In the relatively little time our species has lived on this Earth, we've already advanced

technology so far we literally have the power to annihilate ourselves.

So it's no wonder the dangers of technology provides such rich, fertile ground for horror storytelling.

This series will be looking at the evolution of man-made monsters, stories of mad scientists

whose horrific creations ultimately led to their destruction.

It's alive!

In the name of God!

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