It's not news that tensions have always run high between the Magical and Non-Magical worlds. On the part of the Muggles, our magical power is a source of both fear and ignorance, and it is well known that those things, especially in conjunction with one another, result in hatred and intolerance. Mediaeval muggles are infamous for their Witch Hunts (which, historically, have resulted in the deaths of more innocent Muggles than the Witches and Wizards for whom they were intended), and this hysteria, in addition to other beliefs and values which Wizards have long viewed as detrimental to Magical society are among the chief reasons for the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy Act of 1689. Wizards then determined that it was better for everyone if contact between our worlds was kept to an absolute minimum, turning ours into an isolationist society. 

This fear, while justified in the 17th century, is outdated nowadays, however; at least on our part. Magic is a source of intrigue and interest in the Muggle world, in spite of its widespread status as being a product of fantasy. Muggles today are educated and literate. Religious oppression is at an all-time low (though by no means has it disappeared completely). Most importantly, however, in the last century, the Muggle world has undergone a technological boom which has left the Magical world in the proverbial dust. 

In centuries past, our magic has given us an over-all quality of life that is exponentially better (both in terms of convenience and luxury) than anything the Muggle world has had to offer. Muggles, with their lack of magic, have struggled with even the simplest of every-day minutiae. Everything, in the Muggle world, was an uphill battle, from domestic housekeeping and hygiene to agriculture and medicine, while in the Magical world these things could be done easily with the help of spellcraft and potions. Today, though, many of the everyday struggles of Muggles past have been addressed and solved through the use of modern technology, and the non-magical world shows no sign of ceasing their new-found love of technological innovation. While Wizards seem to live by the adage that "if it's not broken, don't fix it", Muggles have embraced the idea that even perfect solutions can be improved upon. 

Today it's the Wizarding World that is cumbersome and inefficient, a fact we have already embraced when it comes to transportation. For decades now, the Wizarding World has conceded to Muggle superiority in this area by embracing the Railway and Automobiles, ways which, though slower than most magical forms of commute, are more pleasant, safer, and easier for families and large groups, children, and those who are with child. Transportation, however, is not the only area in which Wizards are behind the curve, (communication, entertainment, and access of information, to name a few) however most Wizards are ignorant of the ways in which our society could be improved by the simple virtue of being cut off from the Muggle world. 

Need, has long been the known to be the mother of invention and innovation, and Wizards simply don't have much of it. We have magic; what use have we for further invention? But magic has its limitations, loathe as we are to admit it, and our refusal to see beyond the use of magic to our own human potential has kept us back from the modern age. We have already solved our mundane problems, why bother fixing what isn't broken? Why bother trying to improve what is already an improvement? This lack of necessity has now become a lack of ambition, a lack of foresight, and most importantly, a lack of imagination. 

Apart from necessity, one of the leading causes for Muggle innovation? Is imagination. Muggle literature is rich with imaginative fiction. Cyber-Mechanical Fiction (words virtually unknown to the Magical world), Futuristic Fiction, Fantasy World Building, even Occult, a genre which contains the Muggle speculations on what, essentially, is the Wizarding World itself. Unlike us, the Muggles have never stopped asking themselves "What if?". What if the world was different? How might it be different in the future? These innocent questions and their fictional responses have sparked real-life invention. They imagined and then they simply created it. When did the Wizarding world stop asking "What if?"? When did we stop using our imagination? 

Imagine a world of your creation. Embrace the make-believe, and write about it. As any student of Rune lore knows, the written word has Power, and Magic is nothing if not the ability to make things so. So imagine. Ask yourself "What if?". Write your fantasy, and the Magical world will make it so. Open your eyes to what the Muggle World has to offer and take it for yourselves; it's the only way we, as a society, can truly make any progress. And the first step? Write.