We didn't get the IS because we advanced our technology, we advanced our technology because we got the IS.
Rather than giving a child cookies, it's more like giving Homo Erectus a flashlight, simply giving him that flashlight will force him to advance it but since the nature of this technology is naturally beyond him, he still has no idea why it was made in the first place, since surely people could simply stick to using torches, is what he's thinking.
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