the only thing technology achieves is human equivalency
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The statement contains a strong insight, but “only” makes it too strong. Technology often creates equivalents of human functions; it does not follow that its achievements are limited to human equivalence.
The central question is what you are calling equivalent: the function performed, the result achieved, or the human being who otherwise would have performed it. Those are very different claims.
Where the statement is strongest
The strongest interpretation is not “machines cannot outperform people.” That would be easy to reject—and probably misses the interesting idea.
The stronger interpretation is:
Technology puts some aspect of human capability outside the human, where it can operate through another medium.
Writing can be understood as speech made persistent. Telecommunications can be understood as communication freed from immediate physical proximity. On this reading, technological variety conceals a relatively small set of underlying functions: communicating, remembering, perceiving, moving, manipulating, calculating. This resembles Marshall McLuhan’s treatment of media and technologies as extensions of ourselves.