As Gandalf the White warned us...
"Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves."
The monkey engineers, and their merchant masters, mistake the cleverness to make a thing with the wisdom necessary to use it wisely.
We have the ability to alter the world, but we lack the knowledge to foresee just how those changes will eventually manifest themselves. The stone statues of Easter Island testify silently to this, but we choose not to listen.