Mr. Varone's "Ballet Mécanique" does not take the space age and the computer age for granted.
Moore's law, which the computer industry now takes for granted, says that the processing power and storage capacity of computer chips double or their prices halve roughly every 18 months.
Robert Heinlein's They (1941) and Ray Bradbury's The Veldt (1951) both toyed with simulated realities long before the computer technologies we take for granted today existed.
He contributed so many things, but his single greatest achievement was the stored programme computer, which we all take for granted now.
Once you accept this alleged weirdness, quantum theory becomes a fantastically useful tool, and many scientists just use it as such, like a computer whose inner workings we take for granted.
And, while his machines were mechanical, they anticipated the applications of computer software which we now take for granted.
Americans take for granted that their computers are customizable or their cars are customizable during the shopping process but they are unaware of the ability to customize other, smaller purchases particularly food.
These are the things which we now take for granted on all computers.
So what we have in California are public schools that lack the basics that children should be able to take for granted, such as computers in classrooms, up-to-date textbooks, modern science labs, school nurses, library books and librarians, and instruments for music instruction and band.
It also invented other things we now take for granted, such as the personal computer and the ethernet.
