"Your phone is a rock": tracing 3.3 million years of toolmaking from stone tools to pocket chips
kevrussell · x · 2026-10-11
A piece titled "Your phone is a rock" traces a 3.3-million-year-old idea from the oldest known stone tools to the chip in your pocket, told through two voices — the Hand (humans) and the Sand (AI) — reframing the phone as the latest step in humanity's long toolmaking lineage.
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