Over the centuries, humanity has occasionally seen enormous breakthroughs. Steam power fueled the Industrial Revolution. The Wright Brothers stunned the world when they flew a few brief seconds at Kitty Hawk in 1903. A scant 24 years later, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic and 42 years after that, Neil Armstrong trod on the moon.
The computer revolution has been closely connected to the Space Age and in 2021, on Christmas Day, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope. It was sent about nearly 1 million miles above earth in a region called near the Sun–Earth L2 Lagrange point.