we are, but i posed this before:

do we have a choice? perhaps in a combine of Ted Kaczynski cabins?

can you imagine if only X percent of people had access to the "Gutenberg" printing press for centuries.

one could make the argument at that point, given enough time, we would be, for all intents and purposes, different in how we manipulate our environment.

Hasn't our success, as a species, always been predicated on manipulation of our environment?