A Tip Of The Hat To Technology

technology a manner of accomplishing a task esp.using technical processes, methods or knowledge

In the 17th Century, while sitting under a tree an apple fell on Isaac Newton's noggin. He made it his task to discover the reason it landed on his head instead of flying off into the air. The technology he used was simple logic that gave rise, we understand, to several equations describing the elements and characteristics of motion. Newton had something to say about acceleration - he would have understood what is happening now. There is no slowing down of technology's advances; every day it is gathering speed and there's no stopping it. Nor do we want to.

Think of the spectacularly beautiful images of our universe brought to us by the Hubble Telescope; the Mars terrain recorded by the twin rovers on the ground there; the views of our own lovely planet Earth, photographed from the Space Shuttles. In the last ten or twenty years, more or less, what effect has technology had on your life? What is possible now that once was impossible? And - what might the future hold?

Shakespeare said

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.