And the dishwasher, the laundry washer/dryer...
replyThere's also plenty of examples where technology creates something very different than the thing that humans were doing: photograph vs painting, car vs horse/bike. It would be silly to say that we have all this horse infrastructure and saddle UX that we don't want to break compatibility with.
Maybe the lesson is that humans are adaptable but machines/manufacturing is not? It's easier to make a great new thing that humans will use than it is to make a cost-effective production thing that exactly replaces what humans did.
If you have 30 minutes to spare the old program "The Secret Life of Machines" has an episode demonstrating how sewing machines work, in a delightfully quirky way.
replyIt is said that Elias Howe was granted a vision in a dream about how to construct the needle for such machines.
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Howe#Invention_of_sewing...