With the successive growth in applied sciences, many complain has been heard that technology is making us extra involved with the virtual world quite than the world under our ft and in entrance of our face. But what I consider is that know-how both brings us collectively and tears us apart. Without know-how we couldn’t discover the Internet or communicate with one another with a press of a button.
Great summary. However, I suppose Heidegger doesn’t say that trendy scientific reality is ‘one truth among many’ – he sees it as a substitute largely as a lesser and misguided truth. This is because of his Platonic affect: trendy technology intensifies the phantasm of know-how as mere instrument, and therefore obscures all different ways of being and seeing – one could say, a la Plato, that there are increasingly more forceful layers of mediation which conceal the essence of the world …