No offense, but yeah, I was intentionally jumping context in order to express what I considered to be an interesting idea. There's no intent to imply what you

No offense, but yeah, I was intentionally jumping context in order to express what I considered to be an interesting idea. There's no intent to imply what you said is wrong, but to move beyond it to more interesting topics. Comparing the Mars rovers to phones made me think of the ways in which the public does in fact do that. There's interesting conversations to be had in that direction. Perhaps future shock has turned into future expectation. Or blase-ness. Or something. This is personal for me, and I've been around long enough to realize I'm never going to have what I want in this regard, but I do wish conversations were more fluid when there are more interesting directions to pursue beyond the immediate context.