No human has ever been able to understand and build all the tools that they use. Steel was to the neolithic man what silicon is to the modern man. Throughout hi

No human has ever been able to understand and build all the tools that they use. Steel was to the neolithic man what silicon is to the modern man. Throughout history, science has been more about trying to understand the mechanisms of how we utilise nature than genuinely novel ideas like relativity. The problem is the deliberate secrecy of knowledge; holding information to oneself in order to gain an advantage over others. You don't need to understand gravity to benefit from the gravity. Likewise, the average person doesn't need to understand integrated circuits, atomic physics, or any other high technology. The harm comes from those who hold information to themselves in order to exploit others.