We carve arcane patterns:

into specially prepared pieces of rock:

then apply energy and imbue them with instructions in specific, obscure languages to perform tasks for us. If you make any mistakes while uttering the instructions, the task fails.

Wireless everything. Its magic. RF magic.

Computer programming.

We created entire schools of magic (programming language) that all have their unique syntax and rules. Each school of magic has it's own spells. We type the magic words (commands) into a spell book (software) that was created by magic words to create new software.

Straight up fucking magic.

Honestly everything since electricity. The number of people we now support at a level of comfort that was unimaginable to even a king 250 years ago.

Waking up at night in the middle of winter in a warm house instantly lit, getting up to poop on a warm comfortable indoor throne with fresh spring breeze scent in the air. The poop flushes away effortlessly and your hands and bum are quickly fresh & clean with running warm water scented soaps and dry with materials 10x more soft & absorbent than the famed Turkish towels. You decide to eat an orange (despite the fact they don't grow within 1,000 miles of here) and heat a frozen snack in the microwave before heading back to bed.

And, unlike most households for most of history, neither you nor anyone in your family currently has tapeworms

Driving on the road with humans and highway driving. Humans are remarkably stupid and volatile and yet, by and large, driving is remarkably reliable and safe despit the fact everyone is controlling a 3000+ lb weapon whilr distracted by thoughts and their phones. It blows my mind.

Aluminum foil. Rolls of perfectly smooth, impossibly thin METAL. That you can buy for like $3 and use at-will by the sheet. Wtf.

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

And I don't wanna talk to a scientist

I'm a spongy sack of fatty tissue controlling a vehicle made of meat with electricity.

I can use a slab of glass to summon either:

1. A bunch of entities with weapons... (firebenders? metalbenders?)
2. A bunch of waterbenders that can use a device on a self-propelled vehicle to move water from the ground to turn off a fire nearby
3. Faries that could possibly save your life
4. Transportation... in exchange for a deduction in your magical number
5. Food... in exchange for a deduction in your magical number...
6. Speaking of The Magical Number System... just hope your region of reigning Wizards/Witches don't mess up the mana in the area... that could break the magic numbers...

There's a box in my kitchen I can put dirty dishes and tomorrow morning they're clean

Both phones and modern medicine are pretty cool to me still!

I can talk to someone on the other side of the world? Basically instantly? Damn! That's sweet!

Diseases that use to ravage the world are just. Gone. I don't have to worry about getting smallpox and just dying. I get a single shot, once? (Maybe a few times for the nasty diseases) and then I just... go do whatever? Damn, that's amazing!

So many having access to the bulk of human knowledge and so many driving head first into conspiracy theories and magical thinking for comfort seems pretty cursed

In a time of constant attention distractions and exploiting addiction triggers and misinformation some folks choosing to reject corporate media to actually read books and primary sources and get PhDs to do more academics seems pretty blessed

The em field seems like 50 different things but it's all different frequency ranges of the same thing is pretty mind blowing

GPS. I know how it works in principle* - but it's still magic that I can be in the most remote spot in the world and still get my exact bearings to the nearest square metre.

( * Triangulate from the time offsets in ping messages from four or more satellites with synchronised clocks, right?)

Written language. It literally lets us communicate with people thousands of years apart and around the world. Most significant technological development in human history imo.

Yeah fam. That's exactly the point of Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s

The fact that all over the world we can drill a hole ~100' into the ground and get fresh water. So far, but many factors are conspiring against that basic life-sustaining resource.

This thing in my hand that’s like 20% larger and 138% heavier than a cassette tape according to Duck AI, yet it has all my music, access to hundreds of movies (via plex, hosted on my Mac), not to mention I use it to answer stupid quotations and sometimes it changes what I type. Yeah, that.

Identifying birds with apps like Merlin. That thing is amazing.

Tap to pay

Rainbows.

Radio. Radio is magic.

Looking at my family brings joy that feels like a hug to my heart.

Computers. How can a bunch of switches do this stuff?

I just am not happy enough with the world for anything to feel magical anymore.

How shitposts travel across the world in an imperceivable amount of time. On a technical level, I know how computer networks work, but it still feels like an incredible achievement.

That slab you use for browsing social media has dotzens of times the computing power of the Cray supercomputer.

hulk hogan said he would wrestle more than 365 days in a year because of how often he went to japan and back