Tool use is not the only type of animal technology use; for example, beaver dams, built with wooden sticks or large stones, are a technology with “dramatic” impacts on river habitats and ecosystems. The earliest recognized revolt against technology was Luddism, a pushback in opposition to early automation in textile manufacturing. Automation had resulted in a need for fewer employees, a process known as technological unemployment. The ethics of technology is an interdisciplinary subfield of ethics that analyzes technology’s ethical implications and explores ways to mitigate the potential adverse impacts of recent technologies. It normally encompasses a associated argument, technological…