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Science, Technology and Society: (MIDTERM Lesson 1-5)

Facebook data privacy scandal affected 87 million accounts. This challenges Heidegger's notion of technology revealing itself in a way that frames users. To align with Heidegger's idea of technology as a bringing forth, Facebook needs to strengthen data security to prevent breaches. Applying Heidegger's concept of questioning can guide beneficial social media use by making users question the veracity of online information.

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Science, Technology and Society: (MIDTERM Lesson 1-5)

Facebook data privacy scandal affected 87 million accounts. This challenges Heidegger's notion of technology revealing itself in a way that frames users. To align with Heidegger's idea of technology as a bringing forth, Facebook needs to strengthen data security to prevent breaches. Applying Heidegger's concept of questioning can guide beneficial social media use by making users question the veracity of online information.

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SCIENCE,

TECHNOLOGY
AND SOCIETY
(MIDTERM Lesson 1-5)
LESSON
1
Diagnostics
Instructions: Rate the extent of your agreement to the following statements using the Osgood scale. You are
also given space to write any comment to further clarify your response.

Statements Agree Disagree Comments if (any)


7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Technology is a means to an end
Technology is a human activity
Poetry is technology
Nature is a standing reserve
Man is an instrument of the exploitation of
nature
Man is in danger of being swallowed by
technology.
There is a saving power or a “way out” of the
danger of technology.
Art maybe the saving power

Exercise 1. Bring Forth or Challenge Forth


Instructions: Do the photos (a) bring forth or (b) challenge forth?
Encircle the letter of your answer below each photo and explain your choice.

a. bring forth b. challenge forth a. bring forth Farming


b. challenge forth
Cleaning
is also
is also
beneficial
beneficial
for us;
for us
without
human at
those
the same
farmers
time for
we won’t
our
have
environm
anything
ent.
to eat.

a. bring forth Ab.windmill


challenge forth a. bring forth b. challenge forth
uses the
Something
wind to
The like this can
generate
released be also
energy but
of harmful to
This one
the wind
Carbon our stores
nature.
remains the
Dioxide
wind. water
harms and can
our be
nature beneficia
although l for us
it helps human.
us
human.
a. bring forth b. challenge forth a. bring forth b. challenge forth
Exercise 2. Reflection
Instructions: After studying the full text of Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology, available
on https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Question%20Concerning
%20Technology.pdf Answer the following:

1. What three concepts remain unclear or difficult for you to understand?


a. What is the true essence of technology?
b. The dangers in technology.
c. Technology and modern technology as ways of revealing.

2. What three significant insights did you gain in studying this text?
a. technology is “not an instrument”, hence, it is a way of understanding the world.
b. technology is “not a human activity”, but it develops beyond human control.
c. technology is “the highest danger”, risking us to only see the world through technological thinking.

3. What three questions do you want to ask about the text?


a. How Heidegger was able to come up with this?
b. Is bringing forth and challenging forth knows by a lot of human?
c. what is the essence of knowing the technology by Heidegger if not all human knows this?

Exercise 3. Art as Saving Power


Instructions: Heidegger explained that art holds power that could save humans from the danger of being
consumed by technology.

In his words,"[art] is pious... yielding to the holding-sway and the safekeeping of truth" (1977, p. 18). In this
activity, focus on art as the saving power of technology. Look for an artwork that 'reveals' the human person
in the midst of technology. Explain the artwork in relation to general concepts discussed in Martin
Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Use another sheet of paper for the picture and explanation.

In this artwork, it reveals the human person in


the midst of technology. The left brain was
technology and the right brain was the nature.
Technology and nature are both beneficial to
humans. We just have to know how to balance it.
Moreover, Heidegger also saw art as an act of
the mind. If we let the technology rule our world,
we will always miss the nature that is free to us.
We have to save our nature while embracing the
new technology ahead of us.
Assignment1. The Dangers of Technology.
Instructions: Read the article below after reading, answer the questions that follow.
Questions:
1. What is this data privacy scandal all about?
It is about the breach of 87 million accounts that may be affected by data privacy scandal.

2. How does this Facebook privacy scandal relate to Heidegger's notion of revealing of modern technology as
challenging forth?
Facebook was once defined as bring forth, as it helps other people from different country to be
connected because of Facebook. But, because of this article, it is now considered as challenging forth as it
occurred problems to those accounts that were included in the data privacy scandal.

3. How are Facebook users 'enframed' in this particular data privacy scandal?
After the data privacy controversy, Facebook users were more vigilant. This controversy has scared
a lot of Facebook users, leaving them more careful.

4. How do you think Facebook can be used in a way that is more consistent with Heidegger's idea of poiesis or
a bringing forth of technology?
As I’ve said, Facebook was once defined as bring forth of technology. Maybe what Facebook would
do is to strengthen their data basis in order to prevent a breach again in the future.

5. How can the Heideggerian notion of 'questioning' guide Facebook users toward a beneficial use of social
media?
Not all we see on the Internet are true. Same goes to Facebook. All of the posts or anything we see
on Facebook needs factual information. We need to always be vigilant whether something on Facebook is
true or fake.

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