I am literally shooting through the sky at 500 mph, looking at a thin piece of glass which can display any image imaginable and can connect to millions of computers around the world. Thin piece of glass transmits request for YouTube video to plane router, plane router sends request to satellite in literal space, satellite sends it to data center, where it is processed and probably sent somewhere else a few more times until the desired data is retrieved and sent back to me through the same route, probably spanning hundreds of miles if not thousands. Once it arrives, thin piece of glass decodes the digital data into hundreds of raster images, each with over a million pixels that each have three data channels, and they are displayed in rapid succession to create a video. And that entire complex networking process happens in seconds. Genuinely, how the fuck have we accomplished this? I'M SITTING IN THE GODDAMN SKY, WHILE WATCHING PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET THROUGH A FOUR MILLIMETER THICK SLAB OF MELTED SILICON. and I'm listening to them too, through little pods that sit in my ears, with 24 hour battery life and wireless audio transmission. The fuck have we done... Ray Bradbury would have loved airpods, if only he could have experienced them.

I wrote the above paragraph while on my flight home. I was happy to be going back, and also happy about getting free airplane wifi. Typa shit free wifi does to people