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Technological progress

You can hardly imagine now that it`s possible to live without your gadgets. Almost everybody have Personal Computer and it is much more powerful than the computers of the past and every year appear models several times more productive than now. This is called technical progress. In our time, nobody will be surprised with touch screen, powerful camera, a wireless headset and even smart TVs, and in fact only 10-15 years ago, you could scare a passerby if you poked the phones screen by fingers and simultaneously talking with someone through the headset . Or you could take for a madman and pick up in the hospital if you gave the voice commands to the TV or said that you need to charge the cigarette.

But now we browse Internet at previously unbelievable speeds, control games using hand or phone movements, can replace lost arm or leg by expensive neuro-prosthesis, you can even print your own prosthesis using a 3D printer. But we need more - humans always seek ways to discover the world and trying to reach  limitless possibilities. We open the boundaries of the universe using the orbital telescopes, we went down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, we examined the DNA and learned to change it, we have learned to treat incurable diseases earlier, we are people, we are the engines of progress, which means that progress never stop and I think it`s wonderful.