Tool - Topics

Stone tools are the oldest surviving proof that humans planned ahead Fire and language get called tools and the word starts to mean nothing Why does software count as a tool when nothing physical is involved? One tool that does a single job perfectly beats a gadget that does ten jobs badly The right tool for the job is the one you already know how to use Archaeologists identify a stone tool by the wear on its edge not by its shape Chimps fishing termites out of a mound forced us to rewrite the definition of tool use Is a spear a tool or a weapon? Jane Goodall was told she was wrong to call what chimps do tool making A tool stops feeling like an object the moment you forget it is in your hand The hammer has survived thousands of years of redesign with barely a change An AI assistant that decides what to do next is not quite a tool At what point does a tool become a machine? Which animals make their own tools instead of picking one up? Did machine tools deskill the machinist or raise what the trade demanded A tool you cannot repair yourself is only half yours