21 Technological Advances We Really, *Really* Take for Granted

It’s easy to slide into the mindset that the miracle of modern living is just the natural order of things. As far as your brain is concerned, we’ve always been able to reach anyone or look up anything via the tiny computers in our pockets before heating our extracted bean juice in the electronic cooking box and hopping in our dinosaur-powered vehicles to go to our email jobs.

But Wi-Fi didn’t grow on a tree. Even if we do recognize those technological revolutions that visibly and recently changed everything, like cars and phones, we still forget about the tiny innovations we never notice but our lives would be infinitely harder without. That’s why user forgeris asked r/AskReddit, “What’s an invention that quietly changed the world but doesn’t get enough credit?”