[Hextinium]

I have been thinking about this quite intently lately, most things are inherently so complex that you by doing almost anything hit unknown unknowns, things that you don't know you don't know. But you don't need to know. You don't need to know what metallurgical structure a knife is in. It's just a knife.

I think the ability to make something that requires less domain knowledge to use than to make it is in fact the primary thing that moves us along as a species. And that the complexity that we hit when things go wrong is just the manifestation is the principal "there is a long was down to the bottom".

[zikzak]

If technology is culture, the relationship between the maker and user is that link which creates what we think of as a social fabric. The most fundamental aspect of that is simply cooperation (hunting together, agreeing not to horde resources when others don't have enough, etc).