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    Technology is a mode of revealing that characterizes modern times. It reveals the world as raw material available for manipulation and production. While ancient Greeks saw making as helping something come into being, modern technology is a forcing into being. Questioning technology is important because humanity often develops inventions for money, power and glory without considering impacts on privacy and personal life. This can lead to chaos if technology interferes too much with individual details.

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    How is technology a mode of revealing?

    Everything we perceive or think of or interact with “emerges out of concealment into unconcealment, ”
    in Heidegger’s words. By entering into a partcular relaton with reality, reality is ‘revealed ’ in a specifc
    way. And this is where technology comes in, since technology is the way of revealing that characterizes
    our tme. Technology embodies a specifc way of revealing the world, a revealing in which humans take
    power over reality. While the ancient Greeks experienced the ‘making ’ of something as ‘helping
    something to come into being’ – as Heidegger explains by analyzing classical texts and words – modern
    technology is rather a ‘forcing into being’. Technology reveals the world as raw material, available for
    producton and manipulaton.

    In your daily experience of technology, what else is revealed to you aside from its function?

    It has a great impact to my daily living because through it I can communicate to my relatves overseas,
    have a talk with them and keep in touch despite of the distance. Moreover, it helps me also to further
    study the topic given for a certain report and comply easily with other academic requirements.

    Why should technology be questioned?

    Everything has its own advantages and dis-advantages and as to technology is. We can't deny the fact
    that technology itself was one of the reason why a certain country is progressive. However, it should be
    questioned because humanity has a history of developing inventions for the sake of money, power, and
    glory. We must challenge technology to set boundaries concerning our personal life. Because when
    technology mingles with our privacy, details about each individual can be used against us. Naturally, this
    will result into chaos.

    How is questioning the piety of thought?

    Heidegger's “The Question Concerning Technology” can thus aptly be described as a comprehensive
    attempt to interrogate the idea of technology in order to gain an understanding of the essence of the
    thing, rather than merely understanding it as an instrument or a means.

    How does art provide a way out of enframing?

    Art provides us with a way out of enframing by bringing us closer to poieses and further away from
    technology. Art activates human sensitivity if it even exists in an individual. The use of imagination and
    actually seeing things the way they are is part of poieses ’.

    Modern technology, on the other hand, challenges everything in its desire to prepare for the future, in
    other words, it destroys and disrupts the natural world. It is now part of our life causing it to be an
    enframing factor in it. To get away from it from time to time and indulge in the arts reacquaints us to our
    past reality that is increasingly being forgotten today.

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