Tools are tools, their importance in history doesn't change the relationship we have with them, you can say it change the relationship between humans when a particular tool is used, but it feels kinda delusional believing that somehow I will have a different relationship between two inanimate objects like an hammer or a printing press. I also noticed that your arguments are always centered on the United States.

EDIT: you added an edit with a metaphor that talks about numbers, but also no, I would not have a different relationship between two abstract concepts like 1.5 or pi, I would use them when necessary.