I’m sitting here, writing on a laptop.
The innards of this machine are utterly remarkable. The things going on in there as I type, and the miracle of the manufacturing of it, are mind-numbing.
I’m going to hit publish in a moment and these words will fly over a breathtakingly complex (TCP/IP) stack of technologies. The bit will fly at close to the speed of light though countless router and computers. They’ll end up on an equally breathtaking set of technologies that I rent by typing some numbers into a screen, which then magically links to my bank.
Over to my right it a small black rectangle. We know it as a phone, but if you’d shown it to me 20 years ago (switched off), I suspect that my best guess was that it was a small chopping board. This is, to the younger me, something from Star Trek. Truly, there’s no way that this was ever going to be real when I was a child, and now they’re everywhere.
What I’m trying to say is that we live in a time of unprecedented technology. It’s deeply impactful and makes the impossible, possible.
It’s not all good. Far from it. It brings choas, distraction, anxiety, addiction and more. But… it’s amazing what humans can achieve when they combine their endeavours.