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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth

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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
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