Have to take issue with your analysis here. For an appropriately empty conception of technology, we can perhaps view history as "the story of technology". Wheth

Have to take issue with your analysis here. For an appropriately empty conception of technology, we can perhaps view history as "the story of technology". Whether this has much explanatory power, however, is another question. Really, though, I suspect this is just a popular contemporary bias mostly among technologists, just as in the Christian world of the middle ages history was biblical history.