Step Back and Wonder

"Are we sufficiently awed by our own technology?" Mark Morford, one of my favorite local (San Francisco) columnists, wrote an essay titled Talkin' To The Steering Wheel which seems like a pertinent closer to JavaOne. Sometimes we nerds need to step back and see how the technologies we have created and deployed world-wide over the years as the miracles they are (well, a few of them, anyway!).