Tools are an extension of the human experience at this point, and it’s no wonder: we simply can’t reach the heights we’re at now without mechanical help.Ī full 2.5 million years after the first tools created by Australopithecus garhi, our tools perform stupendously complicated tasks-often thousands at once. Tools to eat, tools to create, tools to destroy-we rely on the use of machines to accomplish most of the tasks we set out to accomplish in a day, and that’s how it’s been for millennia. When you want to do something that can’t be accomplished by just your words or hands, humans use tools. Stick with me, I’m going somewhere with this.
Like smartphones, their users cared only if they worked-and threw them out if they didn’t.
