Innovations That Excite

As I think back over the history of literacy, I am amazed at how far we have come, but maybe even more amazed at the entire process as a whole.  We take for granted all of this technology that surrounds us, ignoring the long road it took us to get to where we are today.  From communicating through pictorial representations that required painstaking methods to record whatever needed to be recorded, to being able to write a whole blog at a rate of 70 words per minute, almost keeping up with your thoughts as they tumble out of your brain.  New technology spills out at almost the same rate.  You buy a phone or laptop one month, and by the next month, its "old" technology.  I made a timeline on the history of literacy, and as the years advanced, the timeline became more crowded.  It went from just a few innovations within the span of hundreds of years, to new innovations every decade, to so much new technology that if I were to put every single new one on the timeline I wouldn't have room to fit them all.  The thought of the next phase on the "cutting edge list" both excites me and makes me nervous at the same time.  The human race is one of big imaginations.  We must be to have come so far and invented so much.  We have "imagined" so many movies about what new technology can bring - both good and bad.  But no worries - the good guy always wins....right?