Measure domestication by evolutionary fitness, not intent

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Intent tells you who thinks they domesticated whom; evolutionary replication tells you who actually did. Apply the test to any technology: did the artifact's reach expand dramatically while its users adapted their bodies, schedules, attention, and social structures to serve it? If yes, the direction of domestication runs the opposite way from the marketing copy.

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