Source: https://youtu.be/OLHh9E5ilZ4?si=7ynrOM-wUiije80H
Through exchange and specialisation, we have created the ability to do things that we don’t even understand.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
It is not same with Language. With language, we have to transfer ideas that we understand with each other.
But with technology, we can do things beyond our capabilities. We have gone beyond the capacity of the human mind.
Many people and skills were involved in the process of making a pencil. From the lighthouse keeper guiding a cargo ship to the port all the way up to the God himself for creating the tree.
If this incredible complexity was true of so a basic product sixty years ago, imagine how complex it is now of the smartphones and satellites we rely on every day.