Tools for Thought: What's Happening?

The term tools for thought kind of rubs me the wrong way sometimes because it's putting the tool at a higher level of importance than the thought in a weird way. I think we're inventing some interesting new tools, and we're making some interesting decisions about society or humanity in some way. We're trying to unlock a way that people can have thoughts that they haven't had before. So that seems kind of cool and important. And then the other part is how did those ideas or creations or whatever you made, the outputs of the tool last for a long time, hopefully?"