The march of science

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I got my teeth x-rayed this afternoon.

I stood up with my chin on a rest while a machine whizzed around my head and x-rayed all my teeth without me having to put anything in my mouth.

It was only a year or so ago when my dentist put a thing with a wire coming out of it into my mouth and the results went straight to his computer instead of onto film which would have to be developed.

It was only a couple of years before that when my dentist surprised me again. I needed a filling and instead of packing metal amalgam into the hole, he did something and then shone a light onto it.

What examples can you think of where you were surprised by recent changes in technology?

I also had the white-stuff + light-gun fillings some months ago. Liked it, as one filling was a tooth near the front and it doesn't make it look darker than the adjacent teeth.

My folks bought a new car recently, and it had BlueTooth integrated into the sound system (but maybe I'm behind the times being impressed by that). My father also recently got hearing aids, and they also have built-in BlueTooth! (Maybe next people can get implants and we'll all have "native" BlueTooth.) And each hearing aid apparently "talks" to the other in some wireless fashion. I wanted to dig in and read up on the specs, but he didn't have the manual (argh).

Science rules.

without Science, there would only be religion and imagine what a living hell the world would be without Advancement, without Technology, without Order

You CAN have order without technology, you know.