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Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry is a 1984 book by Albert Borgmann, an American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology. Borgmann was born in Freiburg, Germany , and was a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana .
In the philosophy of technology, the device paradigm is the way "technological devices" are perceived and consumed in modern society, according to Albert Borgmann.It explains the intimate relationship between people, things and technological devices, defining most economic relations and also shapes social and moral relations in general.
"Man vs technology" is a type of conflict in fiction, [1] of which The Terminator and The Matrix are popular examples. See also. Conflict (narrative) ...
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a "technopoly". He defines a technopoly as a society in which technology is deified, meaning “the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology”.
Typical examples of themes of this type are conflict between the individual and society; coming of age; humans in conflict with technology; nostalgia; and the dangers of unchecked ambition. [3] A theme may be exemplified by the actions, utterances, or thoughts of a character in a novel.
For example, Latour (1992) [2] argues that instead of worrying whether we are making anthropomorphological the technology, and we should embrace it as inherently anthropomorphic as technology is after all made by humans, and substitutes for the actions of humans, and therefore shapes the human action.
As an example, the aesthetic and technical problems of the air tire diminished, as the technology advanced to the stage where air tire bikes started to win the bike races. Tires were still considered cumbersome and ugly, but they provided a solution to the "speed problem", and this overrode previous concerns.
The question concerning technology is asked, as Heidegger notes, “so as to prepare a free relationship to it.” [2] The relationship will be free “if it opens our human existence to the essence of technology.” [2] This is because “[o]nly the true brings us into a free relationship with that which concerns us from out of its essence.” [3] Thus, questioning uncovers the questioned in ...