Abstract

The harmful consequences of the headlong technological rush for humankind and their natural environment are becoming visible in the context of the Anthropocene. They also reveal how technology is much more than a matter of machines and technical means, as Martin Heidegger had well established in 1953 in The Question Concerning Technology. Will humanity be able to free itself from its quest for omnipotence over nature, in order to rediscover the meaning of the technical know-how that we have received since the paleoanthropological beginnings of our strange creative and thinking nature?