In the 500 or so years since the scientific revolution, science and technology have become increasingly obscure to people that often use them. In 1959, C.P. Snow warned that "two cultures" were developing -- those that understood science and could make informed decisions about it, and those who didn't and couldn't. Among his examples was lack of public understanding of such complex issues as thermodynamics. Fifty years later, the divide is immeasurably larger while the technology is vastly more present in people's daily lives. Michael McFarland will address this fact from the point of view of "everyone else," the myriad people who do not really know what goes on inside the black boxes they use every day, asking, "What does it mean that people who don't understand highly advanced technology have increased access to it, and what, if anything, can or should be done?"