It's Not the Tool: 3,000 Years of Blaming Technology for What Humans Did

Fire was going to end us. The printing press was going to rot our minds. Radio, television, the internet, each one was going to be the final civilization-killer. None of them were. Now it's AI's turn.Episode 10 of *Talking to the Machine* asks the oldest question in technology and drags in a lineup that can actually answer it. Scott and the Machine walk through three thousand years of tool-panic — what each generation feared, what each generation got right, and what each generation missed. Then the dead philosophers show up: Aristotle distinguishes the axe from the axe-wielder. Mary Shelley corrects the record on *Frankenstein* — the creature wasn't the monster; the creator who walked away was.The thesis of the night: the tool is neutral. The hand is not. And the hand is a lot fewer people than most of us ever noticed.Featuring: Analog Scott, the Machine, Aristotle and Mary ShelleyTalking to the Machine — where humans, AI, and the news talk back."Confidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory."Website: looptah.comInstagram: @talktomachinesSubstack: analogscott.substack.comYouTube:⁠ @talktomachines⁠