Means

Abacus To calculator. We rise, beat drums

send smoke signals through land lines

To cellphones 

Stone circles to sundials

a gift of a discerning eye utilized a compass

by harnessing magnetism

a simple lens

evolving to binoculars Telescopes Electricity

to TV’s Computers back to smartphones again

with cameras 

electron microscopes or Hubble/Webb space

backtrack to utilizing natural materials

fashioned into useful things

from Simple tool using

To toolmaking expertise

wood crafting forging creating plastics

chemical extraction

before there were things which elevated our dreams

a mastery of a sort of awakening as beings

Individually Selectively

Whether accidentally or deliberately Collectively

Things We were enabled to achieve

Once we had the means

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