The Question Concerning Technology

Technology itself is a contrivance, or, in Latin, an instrumentum.

Everything depends on our manipulating technology in the proper manner as a means. We will, as we say, “get” technology “spiritually in hand.” We will master it. The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control.

To consider carefully (iiberlegen) is in Greek legin, logos. Legein is rooted in apophainesthni, to bring forward into appearance