Native American mythologies describe a time in the past when the boundaries between people and animals were less sharply drawn and beings changed form (known as shape shifting) freely. Shapeshifting is normal for raw minerals and materials of Earth, being transformed through industrial cycles of production, consumption and waste. These days when human activity has a geological impact on the planet, we are reminded about the first tools that got us going: primitive stone weapons and blades made out of animal bones. Maybe one day we return to them, only by then the animal bones will be rare, and the silicon wafers plentiful.