Title text:
'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3199/
All of this sounds fine and good, but the jump to people with supernatural powers over electronics was a bit of a stretch at the end