Outline the author's argument over the course of the article, including her central ideas and how she supports them. Cite evidence from the text the curse of the inability to imagine

In the text, the author shows how we are proud to imagine that people from the past or the future are different from us because of the technology that existed and will exist in each era. The author shows that this is a defect in our personality, by imagining that technology shapes people in some way, in addition to shaping the activities that we perform with these technologies.

The author states that people from the past were like us, but with less technology. To reinforce this idea, she uses communication devices (cell phone, phone, smartphone, skipe, among others) to show that the most archaic models had the same purpose (to allow people to communicate) as the most modern devices that we know today. Which shows that in the past, people had the same communication needs as us, they just didn't do it as quickly and efficiently as we do today. However, we have a hard time imagining this, and we think that the population of that time is different from us.