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by throwaway314158 1988 days ago
> To me it’s amazing how such wondrous technological advances become mundane so quickly, the future is here and nobody is astonished.

When they're ubiquitous they lose a lot of wonder. But furthermore, a lot of these advances are buried/not directly visible to the end-user. Think of a CD player: You use a laser to produce sound from (what apppears to be) a smooth plastic disc.

I bet the concept of the wheel was pretty damn wondrous in the beginning too.