double danger with modern technology: YOU BEEN LOBOTOMISED

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HERE IS  a double danger with modern technology: 1) a danger to human existence, whose Ontological relation to reality becomes reduced to mere exploitability; and 2) a danger to human thought, which becomes unable to conceive of an alternative ontological relation to the world.  Through Martin Heidegger’s ‘The Question concerning Technology’ he explains that the ESSENCE of something is not present in the thing itself. So as far as the example of the tree it is merely a tree because we say it is but the essence of the tree it not present in any tree we have or ever will encounter. Heidegger dedicated his life’s work to explaining the meaning of the word ‘being’ but as two separate words, ‘being’ and Being’. ‘being’ meaning the physical state of being and ‘Being’ meaning the essence of something. But to understand the essence of technology we must first understand what technology actually is.

                  A computer to us is technology but in fact it is only one part of technology and is in a way just a result of technology. Because without previous technology a computer would never have been invented. According to Heidegger, throughout history there have been many answers to what technology is, some saying it is a human activity or a means to an end but although Heidegger agrees that both statements are correct he also says that they are not true. This is the way we perceive technology and what we believe and want it to be but it is not what technology itself is