RIASSUNTO
Philosophy of technology (phil-tech), relatively new to the North American philosophical scene in the seventies, emerged from its largely European roots under a somewhat dark cloud of technophobic colors. The godfathers, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul, and Herbert Marcuse as the most popular, portrayed technologies as Technology, a sort of transcendental dimension that posed a threat toward culture, created alienation, and even threatened a presumed essence of the human.