Modern technology (n.) is responsible for the shrinking of all distances in time and space, but this does not make things nearer, for a small separation is not yet nearness, and a large separation is not yet distance.
Modern technology (n.) is problematic in that its for-the-sake-of-which is without an endpoint. There is no purpose; everything feeds on itself, moving in an endless vicious circle. Technology exists for the sake of technology, feeding endlessly on itself. The earth is now plundered for its coal, ore, crude oil, and fish.
Modern technology (n.) is problematic in that it pushes towards the greatest possible perfection; a perfection based on the thoroughgoing calculability of objects.
Modern technology (n.) is not a problem per se. The problem is the mode of world which modern technology projects; namely, one of violence.
Modern technology (n.) is thoroughly foreign to the ancient world, yet that is exactly where Greek thought, still hidden from itself, comes to meet us — where we least suspect it.