> so common that we overlook them all the time. And this reminds me of the definition of "progress" that goes something like this: All the things you can do (o

> so common that we overlook them all the time. And this reminds me of the definition of "progress" that goes something like this: All the things you can do (or accomplish) without thinking. This would apply to so many things that, as you say, we overlook: Making phone calls or video calls and not worrying about all the servers, cables, wireless technology, audio components, processors, and more that comes to together all at once to make that possible. Or as someone else here mentioned the supermarket where you can go and buy far more than your basic necessities and not really concern yourself with all the various manufacturing and processing and shipping and sourcing that it took to get the products there, not to mention the machines and technology and people it took to make them all. At a far more macro level, perhaps one of our biggest forms of "progress" in human history has simply been our shift away from the need to constantly spend all day, every day, hunting for sustenance to get thru the day and the next day and so on. We live in a world where we have a tremendous amount of automation and low-cost forms of scalable agriculture that we have freed ourselves up so much to do so many other things. We overlook this all the time because it is the very nature of progress (we don't have to think about it because we are busy thinking about other things... hopefully better things).