Game changers. From the vantage point of the twenty-first century we probably think we are braced for them — even embracing of them.

Moveable type and the printing press were game changers — they made literacy a possibility for the many instead of the privileged few.

The discovery that microscopic organisms caused diseases was a game changer — it opened the door to the medical advances that made actually going to the doctor a positive and not a negative, that made curing and eradicating diseases a reality.

Electricity.
The internal combustion engine.
Nukes and Nuclear Power.
PC.
Internet.
Cell phone.

They were all big time “game changers.” We like to think we are comfortable with change. That we are ready for it. That we welcome it. The most recent Amazon ads for its “Kindle Fire” b…