Technology

First before other, I found out why I was so down this morning, and incidentally last night. Friends I made in class. Apparently, they are just, how do they say it in English, classmates? Friends during class, but after class, fly away. There seems to be an equivalent English phrase describing a similar situation, but applies to couples...what was it.....?

Back to topic, when I was a kid, roughly six or seven, my brother and I would sneak into our parent's room; quietly while they are still sleeping; in the morning, pick up my father's watch on the bed side, and play with the stopwatch mode. I remember that I don't know what I should push to get into that mode, so I just press randomly, until I see some changes, and voila, I'm there. Therein, I start the watch, stop it, start it, stop it just for the fun of it. My brother just stays there looking at what I did, probably fascinated by my cleverness in manipulating the watch.

Now, it was a time when I did not know of the concept of reset, and so, at the first stirring of my father, I just stops the watch, put it down on the stand, and sped out of the room with my brother giggling behind me into our room, dive into our bed and pretend to sleep. Our mattress would shook because we were struggling to contain our laughter. :D

Anyway, the point of this story is, the next morning, when we went to play with the watch again, imagine our surprise then when we found that the stopwatch has returned to zero, and that we I had to find the stopwatch mode yet again, even though I distinctly remember its still in stopwatch mode. It was magic. That's what we thought then.

Now I know better. But how many of us, without being exposed to modern marvels will characterize these modern marvels as magic the first time we observe them. Popular media such as television shows has a saying to this effect; "Any sufficiently advanced technology will be seen as possessing of godly powers and magic to those who do not understand them." That is what I'm getting at.

In this fast paced world of ours, will we see some technology so advanced it seems magical in operation? Are they here now?