Is technology a threat? Heidegger's *Mindfulness* explores 'machination' and its impact on modern life.

Heidegger's Mindfulness suggests that technology, specifically through the concept of "machination," poses a significant threat by fundamentally altering our relationship with Being and the world. Machination, understood as the "makability of beings," reduces everything to its producibility, pre-directing all things towards unceasing, unconditioned reckoning. This perspective aligns with a view of technology not merely as tools, but as a pervasive mode of revealing that shapes our understanding of reality.

The threat lies in this reduction. As Heidegger argues, machination "means the accordance of everything with producibility," leading to a situation where "the unceasing, unconditioned reckoning of everything is pre-directed." This calculative thinking, driven by the impulse to control and manipulate, overshadows other ways of relating to beings, particularly a more thoughtful, mindful engagement with their essence. It fosters a constant annihilation, "already constantly annihilating in the very threat of annihilation," as machination expands its sway as coercive force.

Furthermore, Heidegger connects machination to modern technicity, which "releases man into the urge towards structuring his massive way of being through which every human particularity is overpowered." This implies a loss of individuality and a submission to the demands of technological processes. The essence of mastery, which "arises out of the grounding capability for decision," is undermined because "machination reaches ahead of everything makable, blocks and finally undermines all decision."

Heidegger does not advocate for a simple rejection of technology. Instead, he calls for a mindfulness that can recognize the sway of machination and resist its totalizing influence. This involves questioning the unquestioned assumptions of metaphysics and seeking a more inceptual understanding of Being, one that is not solely determined by calculative thinking and the drive for control.