TY - GEN
T1 - Critique of pure technology
AU - Chan, Ho Mun
AU - Gorayska, Barbara
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PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Every new technology fundamentally changes social and organizational structures. The danger is that technology, when applied with little thought, will dictate the changes and we may not like the results. This paper draws parallels between our critique of the dangers inherent in pure technology ('pure' in the sense of being free from all associations) and Kantian critique of pure reason. Two fundamental questions are posed: What are the limits of technological solutions to human related problems? (analogous to the question 'What are the limits of human thought and reason?') What are the preconditions under which people can make sense of the technological world? (analogous to the question 'What are the preconditions in which people can make sense of experience?'). We explore a phenomenon of unthinking application of pure technology with reference to (1) human inability to perceive the thresholds beyond which technological solutions no longer apply to the human related problems they were originally intended to solve and (2) human tendency for a decontex-tualized understanding of the technologies involved. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001
AB - Every new technology fundamentally changes social and organizational structures. The danger is that technology, when applied with little thought, will dictate the changes and we may not like the results. This paper draws parallels between our critique of the dangers inherent in pure technology ('pure' in the sense of being free from all associations) and Kantian critique of pure reason. Two fundamental questions are posed: What are the limits of technological solutions to human related problems? (analogous to the question 'What are the limits of human thought and reason?') What are the preconditions under which people can make sense of the technological world? (analogous to the question 'What are the preconditions in which people can make sense of experience?'). We explore a phenomenon of unthinking application of pure technology with reference to (1) human inability to perceive the thresholds beyond which technological solutions no longer apply to the human related problems they were originally intended to solve and (2) human tendency for a decontex-tualized understanding of the technologies involved. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-44617-6_41
DO - 10.1007/3-540-44617-6_41
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9783540424062
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 463
EP - 475
BT - Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind
A2 - Beynon, Meurig
A2 - Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.
A2 - Dautenhahn, Kerstin
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
T2 - 4th International Conference on Cognitive Technology (CT 2001)
Y2 - 6 August 2001 through 9 August 2001
ER -