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“As soon as I began to look at man in that way, I began to realize that men were really very large and I made some research as to how much our various tools were being employed relative to the total population. In America in 1936 I found that every American weighed nine tons of steel and 22 tons of concrete and 140 pounds of copper and so forth. This is the relative amount of externalized tooling per capita. Man is really larger than the dinosaur, larger than the mammoth, but the dinosaur and the mammoth became obsolete simply because they tried to run all their tools around integrally: the dinosaur was pulling a great big one-ton tail along, with the idea that it could knock down a banana with it. So that man was uniquely successful by virtue of this grand strategy of differentiating out his functions, and developing interchangeable functions.”
