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Humans creating and sharing new technologies (and ideas, and works of art, etc.) across societies _is_ a force of nature.

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“Force of nature” generally means some phenomenon of physics or some natural disaster outside of human control, which is what I meant.

“A big and powerful cool thing” is not what I meant, and not what force of nature usually means.

Life is a force of nature. Evolution is a force of nature. The development of society (across species, not just human) is a force of nature. The development of technology is an aspect of that. In other words, macro-economic trends such as the development of automation ARE in fact an aspect of evolution, aka, a force of nature.

Doesn't matter if that's not the sense in which the phrase is used, these things are arising out of the collective unconscious, not as the result of mere individual will.

You just made that up. That's not what the phrase "force of nature" means.

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