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How can we relate ourselves to technology in a way that not only resists its devastation but also gives it a positive role in our lives? This is an extremely difficult question to which no one has yet given an adequate response, but it is perhaps the question for our generation. Through a sympathetic examination of the Borgmannian and Heidegerrian alternatives, we hope we can show that Heidegger suggests a more coherent and credible answer than Borgmann’s.
Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology, by Hubert L. Dreyfus.

For everyday practices to give meaning to people's lives and unite them in a community
something must collect the scattered practices of the group, unify them into coherent possibilities
for action, and hold them up to the people. People can then act and relate themselves to each other
in terms of this exemplar. An object that performs this function Heidegger calls a work of art.
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/courses/S06/IEOR-QE-S06/being.power_hubert.dreyfus.pdf