Do technical artefacts evolve?

How does one tell the story of a machine? Can we say that technical machines have their own genealogies, their own evolutionary dynamic? The technical artefact constitutes a series of objects, a lineage or a line. At a cursory level, we can see this in the fact that technical machines come in generations; they adapt and adopt characteristics over time, one “suppressing the other as it becomes obsolete.”2 Since the early days of Darwinism, analogies have been drawn between biological evolution and the evolution of cultural artefacts. It is obvious that technical artefacts in particular change over time; we can see these changes happening around us, and they appear to be accelerating. So are we to understand this dynamic from a biological, an anthropological or a sociological perspective?