Heidegger believed that modern technology uprooted and dislodged man from his time and place and thus his spiritual grounding. When he said “only a god can save us,” he feared that something the pre-Socratic Greeks grasped was being lost or forgotten through the general triumph of technology. He called this “Seinsvergessenheit,” or the

There is, of course, another equally serious side to this tale, one that cuts to the quick of the deep and abiding connection between technology and race. From my junior high school guidance counselor’s office to my high