once wrote a short thing, more an image than a narrative/poem, “Spontaneously Combusting Giants” –
in which two giants, about half the height of the planet, have problems with the sun. Anyway, they literally gravitate toward one another. This was pre cellphone and there wasn’t enough space to think about tools, but one can imagine the potential for a cellphone on that scale to literally stick to your ear …

there is something very delicate in the relationships we have with tools … probably the delicacy of the tools themselves. difficult to articulate but something like: love is only plausible between the naked

“The extraordinary efficiency of the fish as a swimming device is partly due, it now seems, to an evolved capacity to couple its swimming behaviors to the pools of external kinetic energy found as swirls, eddies and vortices in its watery environment. These vortices include both naturally occurring ones (e.g., where water hits a rock) and self-induced ones (created by well-timed tail flaps). The fish swims by building these externally occurring processes into the very heart of its locomotion routines. [...] Now consider a reliable feature of the human environment, such as the sea of words. This linguistic surround envelopes us from birth. Under such conditions, the plastic human brain will surely come to treat such structures as a reliable resource to be factored into the shaping of on-board cognitive routines. Where the fish flaps its tail to set up the eddies and vortices it subsequently exploits, we intervene in multiple linguistic media, creating local structures and disturbances whose reliable presence drives our ongoing internal processes. Words and external symbols are thus paramount among the cognitive vortices which help constitute human thought.”

tools generate distinct languages that are stored in our naked bodies. at best, the absence of the tool leaves you with something like a phontom limb. at worst, the language that that tool evolved itself devolves to become invisible.

cf. Fahrenheit 451.