Heidegger analyzes the essence of technology by exploring how it reveals the world. He argues that modern technology reveals through "enframing," which limits revelation to viewing the world only as "standing-reserve" or resources to be ordered and exploited. However, technology also reveals through "poiesis," the creative act of bringing forth. Heidegger calls for reflecting on technology to counter the danger that its revealing through enframing may consume all other modes of revelation.