In-der-Blog-sein

The Différance Engine interprets The Question Concerning Technology. Rather than quoting from the post, this time I'll go straight to the source, for two bits of its essential message:

What is dangerous is not technology. There is no demonry of technology, but rather there is the mystery of its essence. The essence of technology, as a destining of revealing, is the danger.

P. 28

And,

[I]n the realm of thinking, a painstaking effort to think through still more primally what was primally thought is not the absurd wish to revive what is past, but rather the sober readiness to be astounded before the coming of what is early.

P. 22

  ¶ 2:13 PM