The Users of Technology: the Subject We Should Pay Attention to in the Study on Philosophy of Technology
Duowen Chen
Abstract
Duowen Chen
Abstract
The existent mode of technology is to be used by human beings,and only in the practical activities of using can we highlight the meaning of technology,realize the function of technology and continue the life of technology.Undoubtedly,the users who are the subjects for the application of technologies are the basic nodes of the network in the relation between technology and society.However,the use of technology was discussed mainly by productive discourse for long and the role of producer and consumer in the discussion was overestimated,thus alienating the consumption from its true meaning.Nowadays the technology has been emphasizing as the most important thing and the philosophy of technology has been focusing on the modern context in technological diffusion phase,the philosophy of technology has the necessity to extend its own space where the technology users come into its visual field for interpreting the activities of using technologies.
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The existent mode of technology is to be used by human beings,and only in the practical activities of using can we highlight the meaning of technology,realize the function of technology and continue the life of technology.Undoubtedly,the users who are the subjects for the application of technologies are the basic nodes of the network in the relation between technology and society.However,the use of technology was discussed mainly by productive discourse for long and the role of producer and consumer in the discussion was overestimated,thus alienating the consumption from its true meaning.Nowadays the technology has been emphasizing as the most important thing and the philosophy of technology has been focusing on the modern context in technological diffusion phase,the philosophy of technology has the necessity to extend its own space where the technology users come into its visual field for interpreting the activities of using technologies.
Key concepts: Philosophy of technology, Meaning (existential), Context (archaeology), Function (biology), Field (mathematics), Relation (database), Emerging technologies, Space (punctuation)