When I was twenty-two years old, I heard that A. R. Ammons worked in the biological glass industry. I was fascinated because I thought it meant you could make windows out of bacteria or jellyfish.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I thought if someone worked full time it meant they worked 24/7 and never did anything else!— andalite
- When i was younger i thought germs and bacteria were the same size as me— Tasha
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I used to believe that jelly came from jellyfishAnon