Being and Entity in the Technological Age

Abstract

This is a reflection that assumes that man, defined as a technological animal from its most remote moment as Homo sapiens, molded its nature while crafting tools that have led him from being an axe-maker to creating an electric culture first, then an electronic one, and finally a virtual one. In other words, what these reflections ultimately want to show is that our common human condition is on the verge of a qualitative leap as decisive as the one that occurred in the Neolithic. Is the technological era that we belong to producing unprecedented changes in the human condition? We propose to answer this question by relating the ideas of Husserl and Heidegger in order to find the being of the entity when they are determined by what technology can or cannot do. We thus propose to approach the structure of human experience from the postulates of Heideggerian phenomenology and ontology. Thus, by relating the philosophical tradition with the latest findings about what technology is doing to us, it will be possible to shed light on things to come.