Ian Hodder writes in Entangled about ubiquity (pp. 102-103)
we tend to forget the history of things because: we do not need to know how something works until it breaks down we work without knowing the histories of things; our habitual routinization with things; working of things are often hidden; the strings of entanglement are often so long and complex and chaotic that we cannot monitor them; because of different temporalities; entanglements transform based on their use; things become distanced on place and time — this can all be said for sound; we become so accustomed to it