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"And I thought that technology itself was, even back in 1927, being identified with exploitation, with ways of making money, rather than being thought of as some evolutionary event of humanity-- some increases in artifacts and transformations of artifacts.

"So I'll give you quite quickly my way in which I came to identify industrialization and you'll find it quite different from the business viewpoint, or from the legal viewpoint. I said: Alterations of the environment produce artifacts-- like bird's nests-- that are essential to the survival of the species. You can call it an extracorporeal artifact; but it is a tool. I saw these in terms of solving functions. Human beings were not at all the only tool makers."