Extremely basic example, but sometimes I'll open a web page and feel amazed at the huge stack of technology that came together to make it happen. On both ends: CPU, RAM, motherboard, networking components. In between fiber, switches, and routers. And once the data arrives, a browser interpreting HTML, CSS, and JS, all to show me dickbutt.

I've always been fascinated by the act of pushing a button to make something happen. Like since before I remember. Lift / Elevator buttons especially at first*. Light switches, even.

Then combine that with relatively high-functioning ASD or AuDHD or whatever's actually going on between my ears, creating an affinity for things are logical and lack messy, confusing emotions.

*There's one lift that's been in service longer than I've been alive, was frequently used by my mother when I was in a pushchair / stroller to bypass the nearby staircase. I still yearn to go back to it, press the buttons for myself, see the way they light up and ride the lift. The last time I was nearby it was busy and in use by mothers using pushchairs / strollers, believe it or not. The nerve!

I can video call a relative in China and its real time exchange of information.

Someone like, say, Wong Kim Ark, for example had to send a letter that went by boat that took months.

(I highly doubt that there was even a telegraph line across the pacific, right?)

I can have a personal witness with me in case of conflict (phone video recording)

Technology, especially that which you didn't fully understand, is basically magic and magic is very interesting 🪄

Not technology in general, but there are specific technologies that are mind-blowing.

Back when I was in college, IBM announced they developed the technology to manipulate individual atoms. They used it to spell out "IBM" at the atomic level.

Not sure where or if they ever DID anything with it, but that was fascinating!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms)