In Dawn, part of the Xenogenesis trilogy, Octavia Butler describes an earth woman taken to an alien "spacecraft" orbiting earth. All of the devices on the craft

In Dawn, part of the Xenogenesis trilogy, Octavia Butler describes an earth woman taken to an alien "spacecraft" orbiting earth. All of the devices on the craft activated by chemicals the aliens can choose to naturally secrete so none of the technology is remotely usable by humans in raw form. The aliens then genetically alter the woman to allow her to use the devices. Moreover, the aliens are circling earth with the aim of trading whatever useful genetic material humans have in exchange for the improvements the aliens offer to humans. So in this conception, the technologically constructed and the evolutionarily created quality merge into a single category.