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Among the few philosophers to date to have taken technology seriously, it should be apparent that Martin Heidegger is a pioneer in this field. He was among the first to raise technology to a central concern for philosophy and he was among the first to see in it a genuine ontological issue. This is the case in spite of the dominant and sometimes superficial interpretations of Heidegger which see in him only a negative attitude to technology.
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Ihde, D. (1979). Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology. In: Technics and Praxis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9900-8_9
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