I understand the sentiment that technology _feels_ magical. It certainly does so for someone unfamiliar with the field. But for us working in it, who can see t

I understand the sentiment that technology _feels_ magical. It certainly does so for someone unfamiliar with the field. But for us working in it, who can see the layers upon layers of abstractions, it feels less magical and more like a miracle that any of this works at all. Many of the devices you mention are programmed at such high levels that the programmers themselves rarely understand exactly what's going on beneath the surface. The hardest part of getting the thing to work at all is managing the complex web of dependencies underneath, not programming the actual functionality. Systems that appear magical are mostly running on a house of cards and person-years worth of frustration.