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We live in an age of marvels. Repost.

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This quote is making the rounds again, so I thought I’d repost what I wrote back in early April:

I’ve seen this posted in numerous places both on Facebook and Substack, with many commenters adding their agreements to it.

I’m apparently coming at this from the wrong direction, because my thought every time I see it is, “You already have machines that do your dishes and your laundry! And they don’t have to use AI!” Well, I don’t have a dishwasher, mostly by choice, since they keep “improving” them out of usability. And our washer and dryer are smarter than I’d like (and musical. Why would I want a musical washer?). I seriously don’t see a need for my washer to be connected to the internet.

And we have running hot water at the turn of a tap. I don’t think even Rome had such luxury. (I know they had running water, good sewers, and public (quite public) restrooms.)

We can light up a room at the turn of a switch. No longer having to have scores of candles and lamps to try to have enough light to read by. And in spite of what people like Dickens might say, a blaze of candles on the mantle did not give off as much light as a single low-lumen lamp of ours.

We have vehicles that will take us places in just moments. We can run to the store to just pick up an item or two. We don’t have to wait for the monthly trip to town to pick up our groceries.

In short, this is a marvelous age, and we should be amazed that we can live in it.

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