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Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.
Approximate author period: c. 1932 AD · modern
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- Martin Heidegger
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- Approximate author period: c. 1932 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Martin Heidegger: life dates 1889 to 1976. Wikidata Q48301, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48301 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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