At least you're noticing that, too. Yeah, that's the whole point of technology; it helps a creature to get around its physical (and mental) limitations, sure, but it can also transform the world, literally. Everything from bulldozers (which are simply better at doing physical work than a mob of humans) to communications technologies (which may one day break actual communication barriers with other species.)

Humans are a technological animal. It's a mistake to say that it's a generalist - dietary-wise, sure, but a lot of critters have turned out to not be "strict" this or that-eaters lately, too - but behaviourally, it's addicted to its own technology, having long ago fallen into an ever-tightening spiral of dependency. The better and more widespread technology gets, the more Man depends on it just to exist. It's great, but it also has its downsides that go beyond environmental changes.

It also gives Man a kind of feeling of power and, yes, superiority. Especially since the beginning of the modern Industrial Age, and the ramping up of the pace of technological improvement during the Victorian era, Man's thinking didn't become less "magical" than it was before, but that magical thinking got transferred to tech, and humans figure that anything they envision can become reality.

Humans have always believed that the Earth was made just for themselves. Even when it comes to better knowledge leading to better understanding that humans are just one species amongst many on this planet, and their fellow animals are not "mindless automatons" here to be servants (any more than black niggers were put here to serve whites), their minds rebel, and they want the world to be the way they always wanted it to be - a human-oriented "utopia" where humans just sit around and smell each other's farts and gigglenwank or some shit, as far as I can tell.