Abstract
The chapter examines our technological approach to reality by comparing the perspectives of the 'technological aggiornamento' in the Catholic social teaching since the 1960s (Paul VI., Benedict XVI., Pope Francis) and the critical warnings against 'the unmanageable power of technology' in the hermeneutic-ontological philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In the second, concrete-ethical, part, the chapter focuses on moral challenges of the present-day most advanced technologies including 'specialist technologies', 'common user technologies' and 'technologies appropriate to a human situation' (the idea inspired by economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher).
In contrast to a utopian-ideological fascination by technology as a projection of 'automatically secured future', the chapter calls for technology closely tied with the 'interface' of everyday human experience, an inexhaustible mystery of the 'granted reality' and the awareness of technological creators' and users' imperfection.