The entire history of technology is our becoming dependent on one invention after another, such that anyone with any interest in the area(s) that invention touc

The entire history of technology is our becoming dependent on one invention after another, such that anyone with any interest in the area(s) that invention touches no longer has a realistic choice not to use it. They may technically be able to, but only through outsize sacrifice that leaves them worse off than they would have been before the thing was invented.