Well, that's always been the province of progress, hasn't it: the gradual mundanization of what was formerly miraculous.

No, not with any degree of seriousness. I had rotten eyesight even as a boy.

Emphasis on "they are trying not to be" different. Slightly different implication. They're doing their very best to present to each of us at the level with which we may be personally assumed to be technologically competent. They're trying not to spook us.