as Exupery said in "Planet of people" (Terre des hommes, 1939), in my rough understanding - "technology opens up views we did not want to see":
(excuse my quoting/mistranslation from yet another language):
"
part I
...
Man find himself when he tries himself against some obstacle. And for that he needs a tool. ... So the airplane, the tool of air transport, pulls the human into all them old problems.
...
part iV
...
For centuries our roads have been deceiving us.. avoiding badlands, rocks, sands, only going from one spring to another.... Airplane gave us the straight line. .. and we see the deep essential bottom, rocks in the base..
...
"
(excuse my quoting/mistranslation from yet another language):
" part I
... Man find himself when he tries himself against some obstacle. And for that he needs a tool. ... So the airplane, the tool of air transport, pulls the human into all them old problems.
...
part iV
... For centuries our roads have been deceiving us.. avoiding badlands, rocks, sands, only going from one spring to another.... Airplane gave us the straight line. .. and we see the deep essential bottom, rocks in the base.. ... "