An introduction to the metaphysics of technology

This essay offers an explanation of the metaphysics of technology. It analyzes the principal characteristics of technology: rationality, materiality, accumulation, process, and method. Technology is rational and uses a method that is built upon the accumulation of its processes in a material world. As a result, it performs an immediate and pragmatic function. After a brief introduction and an analysis of the thinking of Heidegger and Dessauer, we will discuss how free choice plays a role in technology, since all technologies emanate from one metaphysical 'principal': an openness to being, which is the fundamental quality of humanness.