The tools we create tend to fill us with fascination and fear alike.They provide enjoyment and upgrade our abilities. But they also contain new traps and threats. Fire heats, but it also burns; the spear used to kill prey can also be used to kill our fellow humans. Even our most normalized inventions – from cars and planes to surgery and Instagram accounts – have brought untold suffering to their lofty altars.  Many of our most memorable myths and stories carry the message of technology as a kind of loaded gift.