Your habit of citing yourself with the appropriate references has led me from taking your stance as an extremely literal one (“understanding all of the layers;

Your habit of citing yourself with the appropriate references has led me from taking your stance as an extremely literal one (“understanding all of the layers; literally”) to actually viewing your point as…very comprehensive and respectful to the history of technology while simultaneously rendering the common trope that you are addressing as just that, a trope. Thanks, teddyh.