Thinking Around Technology

Wilhelm M. Javier
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Understanding of technology is
often reduced to its technical and
utilitarian aspects
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 Needs vs Created needs vs
Necessity
What used to be a created need has become a necessity

Upon the introduction of mobile phones, people were amazed of the kind of freedom it brought
Phone calls are no longer confined to where the wires are installed
It drastically improved the ways of communication
Technology: The great leap
1. Personal & social relationships

3. Even the landscape of the earth

2. Conduct of business

At the heart of these changes are the increasingly

complex yet practical technologies that address the
demands of modern living both basic and created
needs
Means to an end
TECHNOLOGY
Human Activity
Heidegger
Greek
Concepts
Technology is what we use to satisfy and meet both our
basic and created needs.
 Technology brought forth as
Poiesis

Struggle to make work efficient  ideas come forth based on previous experiences put together

In order to address the need, the ideas are translated into creating something to solve the problem
 Technology is derived from the
accumulated knowledge in
different occasions of learning
which at the time it is needed to
answer a particular need

True enough, technology is instrumental as it addresses need

 Technology is nothing without
its maker and user, the
human being

According to alarmists, people are so

dependent that even the meaning of
life is attributed to their gadgets

Question: Do you think technology would take over the lives of humans?
The Good Life
Aristotle’s parameters to true happiness