A century ago, French novelist Marcel Proust wrote: "The only true voyage of discovery … would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is."
Proust's was an era of miraculous new technologies — electric lights, cars, telephones, airplanes, movies. These strange inventions first bewildered and intimidated, then extended humans' reach and let us bear witness to a larger world. We integrated those technologies into our lives and now confidently reach for a switch, a phone, or the steering wheel because we know what those things do and how to use them.
