Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.