An everyday lunacy to me is people walking around using their smartphones and blathering things that if they only knew the technology imbued into that smartphone they might be crushed by the physical force of the irony.
Listening to some teenager complain about how they "hate nerds" or <insert pseudoscience> or <insert antiscience idiocy> with a device that is using quantum-level physics, materials engineering, electrical engineering, math, computer science, chemistry, unimaginable nerd-centuries of effort.
Modern humanity exists in a miracle of technology. Witchcraft to people only 300 years ago. And to say nothing of heating, cooling, transportation, agriculture, medicine, etc.
Transistor/Information Technology however may be building such a stack of technology dependence that is easily teetered and makes our whole civilization much more fragile to disruption. We saw it with Covid, about as insignificant a disruption as could be imagined, basically a test run for globalized trade and interdependence. Generally we failed.
But then again I'm reaching the age where "prepping" starts to infect the mind.
Listening to some teenager complain about how they "hate nerds" or <insert pseudoscience> or <insert antiscience idiocy> with a device that is using quantum-level physics, materials engineering, electrical engineering, math, computer science, chemistry, unimaginable nerd-centuries of effort.
Modern humanity exists in a miracle of technology. Witchcraft to people only 300 years ago. And to say nothing of heating, cooling, transportation, agriculture, medicine, etc.
Transistor/Information Technology however may be building such a stack of technology dependence that is easily teetered and makes our whole civilization much more fragile to disruption. We saw it with Covid, about as insignificant a disruption as could be imagined, basically a test run for globalized trade and interdependence. Generally we failed.
But then again I'm reaching the age where "prepping" starts to infect the mind.