How technology enframes us and turn us into calculative beings.
.The essence of technology, some have argued is to enframe, thereby” reduces the being of entities to a calculative order (Heidegger 1993, 311-341).
Hence, the mountain is not a mountain but a standing supply of coal, the Rhine is not the Rhine but an engine for hydro-electric energy, and humans are not humans but reserves of manpower. The experience of the modern world, then, is the experience of being's withdrawal in face of the enframing and its sway over beings
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