Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 28 No. 1, 2008.
Review article
Technology as a Shaper of Human Culture: Social and Psychological Consequences
Vladimir Davčev
orcid.org/0000-0002-2034-1174
; Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
Elena Ačkovska-Leškovska
; Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
Abstract
The extraordinary influence of technology on the human life has always been a paradox. For example, one of the factors contributing to an increase of uncertainty of the future of technology is internal contradictions of the technical system and society. For instance, a vulnerability to accidents grows proportionally with the size of organizations. Similarly, the more powerful a technology is, the more it disturbs the world. Some people think that the technodiscourse is a discourse about humanity and the ways of advancing it. Some humanists, on the other hand, think that the technology can be saturated with traditional values. Today’s culture has just an operational value detached from tradition, molded by the technical progress and economic needs. Culture is a powerful shaper of human behavior because it is the foundation of conscious and unconscious beliefs. It is the way of ‘proper’ ways to live. Can we do something in that way? We think we can.
Keywords
technology; culture; machine; traditional values; cultural values
Hrčak ID:
23144
URI
Publication date:
7.4.2008.
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