Technology is not here simply to provide utility. It is also meant as a springboard to wonder, allowing us to conceive our reality in ways previously unimaginable. It provides an ever-expanding bank of metaphor to crystallize the most abstract ideas into tangible forms.
Don’t think that this is a mere side benefit of technology. On the contrary, for this purpose these ideas were embedded into the universe from the six days of creation, only to be unfolded in our times.