What we know now as the technology of film and television, of transportation and especially air transportation, of news reporting, and as medical technology, is presumably only a crude start. No one can foresee the radical changes to come. But technological advance will move faster and faster and can never be stopped. In all areas of his existence, man will be encircled ever more tightly by the forces of technology. These forces, which everywhere and every minute claim, enchain, drag along, press and impose upon man under the form of some technical contrivance or other—these forces have long since moved beyond his will and outgrown his capacity for decision.

— Hedeigger, ‘Gelassenheit’, 1959