The 0.5 Chronicles / 《0.5纪元》

A living record of how ordinary life crossed from mechanical civilization into the AI age.

From the tail of the mechanical age to the unfinished form of AI civilization. This project writes history from below: not only what changed, but how change entered homes, schools, offices, tools, habits, and imagination.

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• Volume I / 第一卷 Digital Eve (1980–1995): the years when digital civilization formed before becoming normal life.
• Volume II / 第二卷 The Age of Connection (1996–2010): the internet becomes ordinary life, then enters the pocket, the cloud, and the stream.
• Volume III / 第三卷 The Platform Age (2011–2020): platforms, mobile systems, data, and algorithms begin reorganizing ordinary life at full scale.
• Volume IV / 第四卷 Machine Collaborators (2021–2025): machines begin acting less like tools and more like collaborators inside work, cognition, and coordination.
• Open Volume / 开放卷 2026–2029 working line: forward material kept intentionally open while the period is still unfolding.
• Now Records / 当下记录 Field notes from the present: how AI, workflow, and ordinary work are changing right now.
• Legacy Draft Archive / 早期草稿档案 Retained reference material from earlier drafting passes and abandoned chapter lines.
• Method / 方法 How this project combines verifiable facts, lived scenes, and bilingual writing.