From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 09:26:08 MDT
> "But you know, nanotechnology, AI, genetics etc.
> have nothing to do with transhumanism!"
"When we look into the ambiguous essence of technology,
we behold the constellation, the stellar course of the mystery.
The question concerning technology is the question concerning
the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the
essential unfolding of truth propriates. But what help is it to us
to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger
and see the growth of the *saving* power."
"Because the *essence* of technology is nothing technological,
essential reflection upon technology and decisive confrontation with
it must happen in a realm that is, on the one hand, akin to the
essence of technology and, on the other, fundamentally different
from it."
[Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology]
Bentornato!
- S.
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