Your keyboard app is the most important app on your phone and you have never once thought about it. You don't know what version it's on. You've never read its changelog. You couldn't name a single feature it shipped in the last year. It just works, and that's the whole point, and also that's the highest bar any piece of technology can clear. The technologies that actually changed how people live all share one trait: they disappeared. Not failed, not faded. They got so good at solving their problem that users stopped noticing them entirely. The progression every technology follows Every category that truly won followed the same four-stage path. Visible. You notice it. You learn it. You fight with it. Early GPS was like this. Staring at the screen, second-guessing routes, squinting at maps. Useful. You start relying on it but you're still aware. You trust the GPS but you glance at the route before driving. Habitual. You stop questioning it. You follow the blue line without thinking.…