“I discovered computers”, the title of this submission, is uttered very early on in this video. I feel the phrase to be terribly universal in that, at some age, at least, computers provide an antidote to the terrible. Confronted with an obvious and stark lack of power, we are suddenly granted power: the machine does exactly what I say, if I have the patience to learn how to say it. What an incisive and timely tool. What serendipity!

A stick on the ground remains a stick - no staff, no wand, no artifact of thunder - unless urgency presses the insignificant into significance.