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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to build the first systems millions of years back in the form of prehistoric tools and weaponry. As time passes, eight key systems slowly but surely freed us from the limits of our dog roots. The fabrication of weaponry, the mastery of flame, and the systems of clothing and shelter radically restructured our body, enabling us to walk upright, shed our body mane, and migrate out of tropical Africa. Symbolic communication altered human advancement from a slow-moving biological process into a fast ethnic process. The technology of agriculture revolutionized the partnership between humanity and the surroundings, and the systems of interaction led to the delivery of civilization. Detail equipment spawned the commercial revolution and the go up of nation-states; and within the next metamorphosis, digital systems may well unite most of humanity for the benefit of future decades. Synthesizing the studies of primatology, paleontology, archeology, history, and anthropology, Richard Currier reinterprets and retells the present day narrative of individuals evolution that began with the breakthrough of Lucy and other Australopithecus fossils. But the same pushes that allowed us to assimilate technology into every aspect of our day to day lives have also helped bring us to the brink of planetary catastrophe. Unbound talks about both how we got here and how human culture must be altered again to attain a lasting future. Technology: "The deliberate changes of any natural subject or compound with forethought to attain a specific end or to serve a specific purpose."
