A short film of human progress: from the first writing, the pyramids and the Parthenon, through Euclid, the Pantheon, Brunelleschi's dome, the printing press, Leonardo, Magellan, Newton, the steam engine, the X-ray, flight, the Hoover Dam, the Moon landing, the microchip and the Hubble Deep Field, then faster and faster to light speed, and into a black hole.