ABSTRACT
A big effort is required to reimagine the executive out from under the structures that lead to their subservience. This chapter examines Heidegger's markedly different conception of technology, which is not as weird, or as marginal, as it may appear. Approaches to an examination of the relationship between time, technology and executive education have a compelling, sometimes beguiling, explanatory force. Heidegger had begun his considerations of the effects of a technological approach to the world in his 1938 manuscript. Heidegger's principle claim is that the essence of technology belongs more to the realm of knowing, in that "technology is a mode of revealing": that is, technology reveals beings – being as things and thingness. Heidegger's introducing of the "fourfold", in his essay Building Dwelling Thinking, and later in The Thing, is his attempt, as Mark Wrathall explains, "to uncover the way that real things, as opposed to mere resources and technological devices, show up".
