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Technology and human identity — who are we with our tools?

The human being has always been a tool-using animal — the hand shaped the axe and the axe shaped the hand. But when the tool becomes ambient, present in every waking moment, it is no longer a tool in the ordinary sense; it is a condition of existence. Who are you when you put it down?

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