The pace of technological progress is incredible these days. It's amazing and also scary and unpredictable. Like, will we understand ME/CFS within my lifetime? The rate of achievement is so insane that it very well may be possible, but we just won't know unless it happens (or I die first).

The dystopian surveillance panopticon is progressing nicely, though, and new generations are growing up without any notion that privacy was ever possible in the first place. I had a harsh reality check when I met someone online who didn't even know old Reddit existed and then even disliked it. It made me so sad.

Also, there's a meme floating around that technological progress came to a screeching halt during the "Christian dark ages", so maybe it's just that we're finally getting back up to how we were before then! (Lmao)