Being in the world: technology and humanity |
Being in the world: technology and humanity
Being in the world: from Plato to Heidegger
Being in the world: rules and risk
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To the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, technology was far more than just tools that people develop, but systems through which the world both reveals itself to us and shapes the way we see it. For instance, when Heidegger was writing his essay The Question Concerning Technology (1954) amid the acceleration of the globalised economy, he believed that we risked seeing the world only in terms of economic potential and efficiency – an undeveloped beach becomes no more than an opportunity to develop beachfront condos, for instance. He believed that, to prevent........