Man is a mind-bogglingly amazing being. He's only been on this planet in his current form for less than a quarter of a million years - that's like a minute compared to the Earth's age - and already he has changed it in ways immeasurable and unimaginable. He has explored every nook and cranny, every range and depth. He introduced industrialisation. He built the steam engine, surely the most beautiful machine to ever grace our land. He built a big iron bird to cheat gravity. He has defiled and polluted the planet. He has even left it.
Clearly, if Man has even enough brilliance and talent to devise the Petaling Jaya one-way system, there's no limit to what he can do. Not content with inventing the wheel and turning fire and electricity, his long-time foes, into bros, he's gone and fused them all together to create a machine beyond the ken of a simpleton like myself.
If already you find this difficult to read, let me tell you it pales in comparison to how I drowned in the press information on the Mercedes-Benz S 500 Plug-in Hybrid. I was in the Nordic to drive it for a pretty short time, and in that short time I was utterly overwhelmed by the car and its myriad technologies. The W222 is not a simple car to begin with; throw in a state-of-the-art modular hybrid system and I was pretty much in a lecture on the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz lattice basis reduction algorithm, with the exam due tomorrow.
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