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Maybe to emphasize that machines are there to make the human task easy but not let them get lazy and develop a hard dependency on the machine! As in - I can't do this without using some X machine, is a clear sign that we developed a hard dependency on the machine and we fail to learn/understand how to do the task without using the machine.

Happening a lot, the boundary is fading slowly. The human dependency on machines is constantly increasing, intelligent/ AI machines take this to next level e.g. Self-driving cars.

>>rajadi+(OP)
It's been a very long time since humans haven't been dependent on machines. There's a legitimate question to how complex the supply chains are that produce those machines, and whether as a result it makes society and civilization more fragile (if I'm dependent on farm implements from a blacksmith in the center of town, that's different from being dependent on LED displays only made in 3 factories in the world, all of which are on the other side of the planet). But I think the general idea of "don't become dependent on machines" is a ship that sailed long before any of us were even born.