Pretty much. The history of technology/human-built objects is fascinating and a lot more nuanced and involved than most people realize. The tiniest details in d

Pretty much. The history of technology/human-built objects is fascinating and a lot more nuanced and involved than most people realize. The tiniest details in design and production processes can have a huge impact. We are at a point in history where any manmade object will have an involved history of technological development, some of which has only been recently investigated, other which is now lost to organizational/trade memory (for example I recently learned that no one knows who came up with the idea of venting indoor sewer plumbing, one of the most important developments in indoor plumbing). For a look at what it is like to ignore any of this, there was an interesting experiment by Thomas Thwaites to build an electric toaster from first principles: http://www.thetoasterproject.org/ http://www.thetoasterproject.org/