Re: Die Titanen and Die Perfektion der Technik

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

Umberto Rossi wrote:



> Sciences AND technology, especially applied technology.  The moment when we
> (all we) became aware of the titanic world is when technology impacts on our daily
> life.  The discoveries of scientists may pave the way for it.  But titanism becomes
> fully perceptible when all the people yuou know own a cellular phone (this is just a
> small symptom--well, maybe not that small, after all).  *That* changes your
> perception of space and time.  Immediate availablilty!  Sounds much like Heidegger
> too.

Umberto,

Of course cellular phones and Internet
are two sides of the quickly growing 
Titanic influence in the world.

> And yes, there's the big achievements, those which are well covered by media.  The
> tunnel under the Brit Channel.  Surely the Bridge over the Messina Strait would be
> something like that (don't worry, it's not coming).  The new space station.  A trip to
> Mars (something about which the US keep discussing).

Presently Europe's longest fixed linked is
built across the Sound between Denmark
and Sweden. Living on the Sound I must
say I welcome it as a contribution to making
the Sound Region increase its growth
potential (transnational regionalism)
but on the other hand I am aware that
the building of the link is a sign of growing
Titanism. Personally I feel the greatest
dangers are in the genetic area, in the
cloning exercises and the play with 
the human and animal world.
 
> But--let me tell you that all these achievements sound a bit half-hearted.  The really
> titanic moment seems to me to be in the past, in that 1969 when men reached the
> Moon and Heidegger was so deeply struck.  That was the Zenith of Titanism.

Maybe 1969 was the zenith of Titanism.
But wait, my friend, there is much more
to come before the return of the Gods in
the 22nd century.

Best wishes

Bertil Haggman