I think some of why this stuff gets overlooked is because in many cases, it's reducing the friction to do a particular thing, not necessarily enabling a new thi

I think some of why this stuff gets overlooked is because in many cases, it's reducing the friction to do a particular thing, not necessarily enabling a new thing - we want to know what the weather is like in Peru, suddenly we know, and there wasn't any tangible process involved in getting it. It's not surprising, because we expected to know about Peruvian weather, and now we do, and that's what we'd expect, so it doesn't get noticed. We want to know what restaurants are over there, and we do. We want to know what's on their menu, and we do. We want a new spatula, and we've got one. It doesn't feel magical, it feels frictionless, which feels like the way things should be, so we don't notice it.