The document discusses technological innovations from the Gilded Age to modern times. It notes that inventions like the telephone, radio, and motion pictures began in the late 19th/early 20th centuries to improve communication and entertainment, just as innovations like the internet and digital media do today. Skyscrapers also evolved from the early steel-framed buildings of the 1880s that revolutionized construction to today's record-breaking towers. Overall, the document suggests technology has advanced in similar ways over time to increase efficiency and connectivity while satisfying human desires for amusement.