> **🌱 Planted:** Fri 10 January 2025 --- When [[Martin Heidegger]] inquired into the nature of being, he noticed that the technology we interact with profoundly shapes our way of being, so much so he identified it as a certain kind of inauthentic attunement, which he called "technological attunement". Heidegger speaks of technology not only in the sense of electronic hardware and software, but as the myriad of tools and capacities that are always available and at our disposal in our everyday lives—what he referred to as "standing reserve". Our phones, computers, cars, tables, chairs and even the utensils in our kitchen are capacities in "standing reserve", ready to be utilised and exploited. --- **➡️ Next:** [[Technological attunement modifies our entire way of being]] ---