Bruce McCall'ss May 14, 2007 cover of The New Yorker is about man s obsession with progress and technology. The artwork features an ape on a rock who evolves into a cave man, an Egyptian, a soldier etc. and along with these evolutions come the technologies of each new civilization. McCall s original art is animated by Toronto s Smiley Guy Studios.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bruce_mccall_s_faux_nostalgia.html