We have ignition

Everybody knows that life is moving faster. What if this acceleration is simply the warming of the enzyme systems that constitute our bodies and the ecosystems of the earth? The earth has been warming since the last ice age, and more rapidly since the beginning of the industrial age. Enzymes are biomolecules, usually proteins, that accelerate chemical reactions. Simple chemical reactions accelerate 2-fold for every 10 degree increase. Unlike strictly chemical reactions, enzymes can accelerate reactions even more for each degree of heat. This is why reptiles can move much more quickly as they warm. "Warm blooded" animals, including humans, maintain a body temperature that insulates our metabolic changes from ambient temperature. But we still respond to heat, burning calories in cold climates just to keep warm.

Some smart people are predicting that human development is accelerating towards an event, a "singularity" that will change everything. This again has intriguing resemblance to enzymes. As temperature increases, enzymatic acceleration continues.... until with just a few degrees more heat, the enzyme is destroyed and the reaction stops completely.