> and the people around me did not notice or care. This is such a transient thing. If you're not primed to notice a self driving car (already thinking about i

> and the people around me did not notice or care. This is such a transient thing. If you're not primed to notice a self driving car (already thinking about it / having read it) you may miss it. And once you've seen it a few times, the novelty decreases a lot. I try to keep wonder for things that I have experienced already (Holy crap; I'm in a metal tube that's going close to the speed of sound 7 miles high!) But pretty soon other things win (How long do I have to sit in this little seat? And I'm hungry...). Arguably the thing that is most extraordinary is that we've made these wonderful, bizarre things such a matter of routine. Look around you. Nearly every object in the civilized world is a constructed object, borne from human thought. Every street, every edifice, every artifice. Even almost all of the foods and raw ingredients have been crafted to meet our needs. Wow. But flour is a >30,000 year old technology and not something people get excited about...