On technology and imagination

For some reason, advances in technology often place an emphasis on reducing the significance of the physical. So much of technology is based around what we cannot do physically. Inventions as primitive as the wheel and the lever, for instance, are based on what Man physically cannot generate enough power to lift and move as he sees fit. Inventions like the printing press, the sewing machine and anything for convenience is based on the mentality that: “we either (1) don’t have people to do this (2) would like a more regular standard/quality of something being done (3) would be able to do it much easier”. The underlying premise that drives most technological advances seems to recognize our physical limits, not our creative or imaginative ones. Drugs, on the other hand, remain one of the only things of whose design is based on how creatively or imaginatively limited we usually are, or even how bound we are to certain constructs (e.g. social) that don’t really resonate with who we ‘are’. The advent of computers and Artificial Intelligence aren’t, and cannot possibly be, designed in a way that human minds cannot fathom. There’s a realm of heightened emotion, intuition, thought, and imagination to which access is limited in the majority of circumstances. I guess my question is, why? Why are we so afraid of it?

Thoughts:

(1) do our inventions expand our creativity or imagination in any way? I’m thinking of things like flints, carving stones, hammers — they aid us to reach beyond our physical limits/make it easier to accomplish more of our creative/imaginative exploits.

(2) if so, why aren’t there inventions that aid us to reach further in our creative/imaginative exploits (that aren’t anchored to as many notions of ‘limits’ as they usually are), will there not be more progress, as a whole?

(3) perhaps the suspicion of cost (against benefit) is too high. Not that it is 100% factually accurate, but our ‘fear’ of the unknown is very much a limit of human endeavour.