Yes.
Getting to witness firsthand such a major acceleration in technology is both amazing & terrifying. I bought a box of old national geographics the other day, and there's one from 1940-ish with an ad for IBM. the "calculator" the guy is standing next to is the size of a Yugo. My shitty pre-paid cell phone probably has more computing power than that behemoth.
At the same time, I believe we are certainly going through some serious, SERIOUS psychological growing pains as a species as we move rapidly towards post-humanism. Most folks tend to block out certain facts like, hey only 500 years ago people finally crossed the Atlantic and now they've gone to the goddamned MOON and we have the ability to split a friggin atom. These facts are so mind-blowing that we tend to just go "meh - sure we can clone an animal, when's Biggest Loser on?" in order to deal with it. I think if people really thought about major things like the size of the universe on a regular basis, our society would pretty much fall apart.
You know what's GREAT, though? we get to share the planet (for the time being) with THESE!
