Figure from ROBOT, Moravec, Oxford, 1998, Chapter 1: Escape Velocity, page 6
Latooka village and Manhattan island, stone axe and microprocessor chip

                                                                                                                                       
Community life and chipped silicon
For over a million years we evolved biologically into circumstances resembling the images on the left. The bizarre variants on the right evolved culturally, much too fast for our biology to have kept up. It is a credit to the flexibility of our ancestral design that many of us manage to squeeze into the strange new molds. It is no surprise if we find the fit uncomfortable--or that some of us never manage it at all