And now I'm typing this out on a $700 computer.

I forget what the actual measurements are, but I saw an article once that was talking about how we went from having computers in a whole room, to having one in our pocket

if only he knew what snapchat was

We see this now with the rise of the internet. There is so much information out there that it is impossible to comprehend it all. This has lead to a sense of complacency, for what is the point of truly learning and understanding something if you can just google it?

This brings to mind the movie Ready Player One, where the digital world was taken to a whole other level. The players were able to quite literally create a new life for themselves. They could create a whole new house, food, and outfit that would appear very real. When this article was written this type of revolutionary changing of ones material environment was not thought of.

In international affairs after the Cold War we are seeing more and more how diplomacy trumps the use of violence and these weapons that could turn back the enemy. Now that the world and scientists know the extent to what these technologies could be there is almost a sense that we went too far, that these weapons are too great for our use. So now countries do almost anything to avoid outright conflict, because the cost almost always outweighs the demand.

It sees as if science, more than any other field has advanced since this "war", they might be searching for the same familiar objectives, but their laboratories have definitely changed. For example, the use of digital media allows for them to explore and study people and cultures they might not have been able to reach before.