ABSTRACT
For the most part, it seems, liberal democratic theory has had little to say about the "problem of technology". This is not to say that liberals have not been concerned with the moral and political problems generated by advancing technology. Liberal thought seems superficial in the face of technology, and having quoted from Heidegger one can suspect that alternatives to liberal thought offer a more promising grasp. However, for the alternatives the problem or question of technology involves liberal democracy itself. Technological liberal democracy thus transforms human experience into an endless business transaction, with every human possibility or value being interchangeable and thus ultimately the same. Like the right, the left worries that technological liberal democracy abstracts the individual from the social whole of which it is a part and within which its life gets meaning. But for the left, the danger of technology is not the disappearance of rank, order and mystery from the community of life.
