So how do we resist a technological mode of being whilst living within it? Through different and alternative kinds of practices is Heidegger's suggestion. These include:

* local gatherings that set up local worlds, such as the family meal;

*background, taken-for-granted or traditional practices that operate to make a family matter;

*appropriate or the right kind of practices that arise out of, are opened up by, or unfold from a family gathering: eg., the right way to converse at a family meal. Brooding silence and personal sarcasm are unwelcomed and are seen as wrong.

These kind of practices bring the family together as a whole, or as an institution.

Thsi disclose a different mode of being to the technological one.