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Why is humanity the "subject" of History and technology simply the "object"?

Why do we always think like this?

Because the point of having a machine is never just to have the machine. It's to make us able to do things we couldn't before, or to do them more efficiently and effectively.

Technology doesn't create itself. We create it, and we create it for a reason - a reason that matters to us, not to the technology.

"Technology doesn't create itself." well, we might end up telling the story of how Amazon internal microservice culture created AWS, or the war created GPS. In that sense, on some level, technology (or ideas or culture) does beget other things. Over time, as each individual human becomes less significant, we might end up being just part of the medium that helps ideas manifest other ideas.

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