Technology and being human

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Technology is a way of showing us the world — modern tech reveals nature as mere resource, not just a set of machines.

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Nature seen as nothing but stockpiled fuel and raw material on tap — like a dammed river reduced to stored power.

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Not any one machine, but that we come to see everything — land, animals, even people — as mere resource to be used.

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In a technological world the rich self shrinks into a function — the worker, the user — a replaceable part defined by its job.

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Tools are extensions of our own body — a hammer is a harder fist, a camera an eye that remembers; technology is a continuation of us.

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Kapp finds tools-as-part-of-us reassuring; Heidegger finds that very closeness dangerous, because the tool's way of seeing becomes ours.

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Heidegger (frames nature as resource) → Marcel (flattens the self) → Kapp (extends the body). Two warnings, then a warmer view.

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Many people do meaningful work and still feel fully themselves — his point is a pull to resist, not a certainty.