Men encounter technology throughout their lives on three different planes. Everyone meets her in everyday life, in the use, in the utilization, of objects and technical procedures. Almost everything that reaches the hand and covers the view from morning to night is due to it: rooms, furniture, light, heating, water, mail, periodicals, books, houses and streets, vehicles and places of work, clothes and food. , but also artistic utensils, churches, sculptures, chalices, funerary crosses, refrigerators, in such a way that the enumeration would never end. (From the Introduction) Friedrich Dessauer was, in addition to being a notable biophysical engineer, a committed political activist and an excellent representative of the tradition of thought on Technique that has been developed within Engineering since the last quarter of the 19th century, especially from the Germanic world.

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