Our technological powers increase but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
The best part of learning any profession when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy is when you want to do it so much.
'Blind Curve ' the book I'm working on now sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.