Heidegger located technological salvation in recovering a forgotten origin from the past

Evidence

If we pay proper attention to technology, or rather to what technology reveals about us and our Being, we can gain insight into the truth of human ‘belongingness’. From this point, we may find a way forward — which, Heidegger being Heidegger, turns out to mean going backwards into the origin of history, to find a long-forgotten source of renewal in the past. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 585

Categorization

• QUESTION: What specific ‘source of renewal in the past’ did Heidegger actually intend? The passage gestures but doesn’t say — worth chasing in the primary text.
• XREF: connects to: Heidegger’s forest imagery and craft metaphors came from childhood experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 179