Elevate
Rather
Rather adverb - By choice or preference.
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Meanwhile, Science Is Bad and the bad guys use lots of technology, but they only use said technology to grind people into the dirt rather than to help and elevate them.
Source: Literature / Lone Wolf -
Lukyanenko is primarily known as a rather "hard" SF writer, so his Word falls well within the "too advanced technology" category, and he has a lot of morbid fun subtly playing with the way humans either elevate what they don't understand to the divine status or downgrade it to Mundane Utility.
Source: Clarke's Third Law
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