Do you think that the story presents technological advance as being positive or negative?
The technological advancements in Ender's Game have deffiantly been beneficial towards humanity, especially at the end of the book were humanity achieves a positive result. For example, the technological enhancement of the 'ansible' allowed humanity to contact their attack fleets that were deep in space - ready to systematically attack buggers. Without this technology there would be no way that the fleets could be coordinated, thus the buggers wouldn't have been defeated.
What part do humans play in this advancement?
Humanity doesn't develop this technology from their own merit, but rather from studying and analyzing the buggers. We instead found out how they communicated, and made devices cable of emulating this. The buggers are connected through a hive mind and are not individuals and act through different queens. Because of this they communicate through their minds, and it is the speed of light meaning that they an have instant communication from any distance.
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