Questions on Heidegger’s “Question”

Heidegger makes a distinction between modern technology and some older notion of technology. What is this distinction? What is the difference? What do they have in common?

Heidegger offers a common-sense definition of technology, that he later refines and corrects. What is the common-sense definition and what does he do with it?

What is the role of a question in Heidegger’s essay?

What is the danger of modern technology? Perhaps there are a number of different aspects of this danger. What are they and how are they connected?

What is the saving power of technology? What is its relationship to the danger?

Heidegger introduces a number of terms that represent new concepts. The key concept seems to be Gestell, translated as enframing. What is Gestell? How do human beings relate to it? What does it have to do with technology?

Heidegger discusses history and freedom. What is his notion of freedom? How does this compare with our ordinary ideas of freedom?