Most people in the US are vaguely aware of the myth of Prometheus, that he gave fire to mankind. Fewer are aware that he is said to have stolen it from the Olympian gods, and that is probably a later
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
We are cyborgs. More than a metaphor in this case, I think. Objectively, any species that has evolved a dependency on its own artifacts to the degree where it cannot thrive in the very environment in which it evolved without