In our discussion on Monday, we talked about the humanness of computing. The first computers were humans who were able to perform complex calculations. Once we developed machines called computers, they remained an output of human developments, closely tailored to the needs of individual industries like business and the science. We often view technological developments as something that will drastically alter our way of life, revolutions that will change how we relate to each other and the world in an instant. Instead of remembering that humans developed them, we view technologies as independently imposing themselves upon society. As Mahoney puts it, “there is society strolling along, minding its own business, and, wham!, it gets impacted and is left reeling by a revolutionary technology, which changes everything overnight or in some similarly short time” (121). He proposes that history is actually much slower than instantaneous breakthroughs and dramatic effects. This is true; everything cannot change in an instant. However, the slowly building computing developments do still have drastic impacts on the way we live. The world may not have changed much the day the first iPhone was released, but my life is significantly different than it would have been 10 years ago due to my owning one. How does the speed of adoption of new technologies impact how they change our lives? Does the slow build of increasingly advanced technology mean that it becomes gradually irreversibly built into our lives rather than becoming a fad, briefly impacting our lives before fading away? Regardless of the pace at which we adopt new technologies, they will always be the result of human innovation.