Technology Concepts 7 Slides
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The document explores various definitions and implications of technology, emphasizing its role as tools, systems, and mediums that shape human experience and society. It discusses technology's dual nature as both an enabler of innovation and a potential force for domination and exploitation. Furthermore, it highlights the complex interdependence between technology and culture, pointing to its capacity to alter perceptions and traditional beliefs.
Technology Concepts 7 Slides
- 1. Various Technology Concepts Jacques L. Hamel
- 2. Tech = Tools / Utensils Tech = Objects / Things Tech = Artifacts / Works of Art Tech = Resources / Wealth Tech = Equipment / Machines Tech = Gadgets / Apparatus Tech = Prosthesis / Aids / Supports
- 3. Tech = Systems Interrelations / Interdependence / Functional Totality Tech = Activities Human, social, economic, cultural Creating, Innovating, Producing, Utilizing, Repairing … Tech = Knowledge Training, Protecting…; Tech = Co-Determinant in Knowing Tech = Skills as Integral Part of Tech Tech = Methods / Processes / Procedures Only Real Thing!
- 4. Tech = Ideology Messiah Tech = Lifestyle Tech Society / Culture / Optimization Tech = Discloser of New Worlds New Worldviews Tech = Forecloser of Disappearing Worlds Dying Worlds Tech = Medium Tech Mediates Experience, Perception, Activities, Life Tech = Power Or Empowerment Tech Subvert or Consolidate Power Structures Tech = Milieu Background Tech, Omnipresence, Ubiquity Cultural System
- 5. Tech = Practical Arts Mechanical Arts, Industrial Arts Tech = Chronic Disturber of Comparative Advantages Tech = Revelation of Being Co-emergence, Co-constitution, Co-evolution of Tech Being Tech = Fundamental Ways of: Accessing Reality Dealing with Reality Tech = Compensation for Human Deficiencies Tech = Extensions of Sensory Bodies Tech = Exteriorizations of Human Capacities Tech = Expansions of Intellectual Faculties Tech = Factors of Production
- 6. Tech = Realization / Reification of Ideas Tech = ‘Encroacher’ of Nature Tech = Anthropological Obsession Tech = Language Technical Narrative / Discourse / Communication Tech = Fatality Uncontrolled Techno-Sc Progress Humans Evolving Into Tech Components Tech = Rational Means Rationalization = Cultural Horizon of Modernity Tech = Instrumentation of Science
- 7. Tech = Techniques (or Technolgy’s Software) Tech = Applied Science Channeling of forces of nature for human purposes Tech = Organized Inorganic Matter Tech = Study / Enquiry / Science of Techniques (Logos) Tech = Modern Magic (like computer screens) Tech = Tools of Domination / Exploitation Over Nature + Humans Tech = Challenge to Nature + Humans Resources to be Revealed , Mobilized, Optimized Tech = Destroyer of Traditional Convictions, Beliefs, Tech Society = Essentially Secular