How Technology Progresses

And in my Goldbarth search I found this gem as well.

The future is always and only

the present writ iffy—until it's here, and then of course
it's something else. We're not to blame; the brain
can't think outside of thought—or "now" can't think outside
its physics, to a "next-now."

I have an idea for an article about how technology progresses that asserts that people can only take the next step. In fact, technology frequently just attempts to do the same work we've done before, just more efficiently or effectively. It's not until we've had the opportunity to use the new technology that we can really understand its possibilities and move on to the next technological iteration.