A mantis shrimp can see nine more spectrums of light than humans can. Not 9 more colours, 9 more spectrums. 🤯 Their experience of the world is fundamentally different from ours. Because of that, and a number of other factors (see Mantis Shrimp fun facts in foot notes), if they were developing technology, they would do so in fundamentally different ways, for different means, than us. This is an important starting point for thinking about technology: technology doesn't emerge