Nature And Technology Are Sometimes Uncritically Compared As Opposites Or Binaries

Leo Marx, once a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Harvard graduate, wrote an article titled “Technology The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept”. In this article, the author explores the modern day definition of the word technology and argues that technology offers too broad of a definition and is ill fitting to describe all technical advancements and their creators. Technology can be defined as the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science (dictionary.com). On the other hand, it can

Carr and Cascio’s outlooks on “what technology is” were similar, but they had different perspectives on how technology affects our society. Carr notices that while technology keeps artificial information moving forward and huge amounts of information at our disposal, it also affects our natural ability to think for ourselves. He is appealing to pathos because he senses that this common problem is making our society less dependent with their selves and more dependent towards technology. He uses his article to appeal to the fact that he notices the changes in the ways that he used to think came from the use of technology. Cascio, on the other hand, thinks that technology is what makes our society so efficient. He uses ethos to propose that the concept of co-evolution between human and technological interaction has helped us adapt to the ever-changing world around us. Carr’s and Cascio’s perspectives toward the effects of technology usage are the starting point of contrast between the two articles.

It helps to view technology not as something separate, but as an extension of humanity, the physical or digital manifestations of our complex, technical mind’s problem solving capabilities. Some of the constants that can be attributed to human nature include our innate curiosity and

Technologies can be considered as structural constraints. Similar to all structures human beings have created, they can limit or enable human actions. Technology can be defined as the creation, adaptation, usage and comprehension of mostly machines which are known to make life better and assist in solving a problem (Wright, 2008). In addition to that, technology is also used to perform a specific function. The use of technology by human beings can be dated back when they began creating simple tools from natural resources. From using fire to prepare their food which led to the increase of food production to the use of the wheel which aided in moving from one place to another and environmental controlling, human beings are

Technology―a science that enables the ability to control the natural resources that would benefit man’s needs. The complex word originated from techne that was derived from the fundamental idea of the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, which means, “craft knowledge”. Aristotle wrote about how “technology imitates nature” in that humans use natural products in order to create an unnatural man-made resource (Schummer). Even though technology is unnatural, it has been a prominent innovation that promotes the development of society. With this growing trend of this progressing science, civilization is corrupted with technology as it made into man’s major source of life while nature’s mysteries are left unexplored. That is not to say that technology

What are smart devices? “A smart device is an electronic device, generally connected to other devices or networks via different wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, 3G, etc., that can operate, to some extent, interactively and autonomously”(Weiser). There has been a debate for years on whether or not technology impairs users from performing daily tasks and whether it is has become too much to handle. Technology is a very important and helpful aid to an individual’s every day life. Although some might see it as a distraction, the number of ways in which technology has advanced our capabilities, effectiveness and knowledge is enough to sink most opposing arguments. Technology has created a very different society completely changing the very concept of accessibility, making information available at almost any time and anyplace.

In today's world, the real meaning of technology is not understood and known by all. Technological innovations do not worry people, unless of course, they are done to things we eat or use as medications or ones that affect our lives in any way. Often we do not think of things such as seedless fruits and antibiotics as technology. However, if we look deep into the meaning of technology, it is bought about my human beings and changes the environment so our goals can be met and in such a case even fruits become technology. (Cowan 301-326)

Technology and humans have been coexisting since relatively short time; however, their contact sparked constant discussions, theories, and philosophical thoughts as a major social issue. Will it ruin us or will we ruin ourselves due to its influence? These two questions and topics appear frequently, assuming that technology will undoubtedly cause some potential harm.

Technology is a catch word of our times - an immensely important word, but a catch-word all the same. What- ever people may understand by the term, they have learnt that it is technology which is transforming society at an ever-accelerating pace. The only thing that is novel about the word 'technology' is the new emphasis we place on it. Technology has always been with us. It is not something outside society, some external force by which we are pushed around. It is one of the main roots of man's social, political and commercial life; and it will always be that. Even the cry about our technological backwardness relative to other countries merely echoes a message that was drummed out ceaselessly in the latter half of the nineteenth century. To-day, of course, we mostly use the term to signify the organized exploitation of scientific knowledge, particularly new scientific knowledge, to make people need or want, or are persuaded they want, as they strive for an ever better material life. We welcome without hesitation the transforming influence these things are exercising in our social lives, in the same way as our forebears of the eighteenth century accepted what one might call the fruits of the protoscientific technology of the industrial revolution.

We live in a day and age where technology is constantly developing. The role of technology in our lives is a question that has been asked for many years. For example, the invention of the telescope was considered to be the beginning of an alienated society. This invention “finally forced nature, or rather, the universe, to reveal its secrets” (Arendt 394). This new revelation resulted in techno optimism and pessimism. Techno optimism is the belief that technology can make the world better off, while techno pessimists believe that technology is the reason why there is a broken relationship between the balance of society and nature (“Techno-Optimism” 452). Philosophers Karl Marx and Nick Bostrom question the role of technology through a techno optimist viewpoint, while Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger are techno pessimists. In a world that is increasingly dependent on technology, I believe that although technology is efficient, there is a fine line as to when it starts to disrupt our humanity.

The battle between technology and nature is not a new one. From deforestation to fishing technology that can pierce whale hide, technology and nature have played a game of tug of war for ages. From the time man has first picked up a plow and seeded the land, nature has been there with a tornado to wipe the work away. Every time man had started to overpopulate, wild animals and weather would keep it to a reasonable level. But what happens when man advances faster and with more force than nature can? When an industrial revolution or a form of colonization force nature into a small, confined corner. When animals and plants become history and myth. When the amazon becomes a concrete jungle? The battle between technology and nature has affected the world through globalization, industrialization, and colonization, and continues to affect the world both past, present, and future.

Society revolves around the advancements of technology for the improve efficiency for task and easy access for information. Today, we usually consider a mechanical devices, such as smartphones and computers, something that is categorized with those or relate to them in some way, but was this the start of technology? The word “technology” has been around longer than the average person would expected, and technology has been the primary component for our civilization 's improvements that advance us to where we are currently. From elements, communication, discoveries, and manufacturing, the idea of technology is considered to be a flexible and progressive term that portrays itself to have a variety of purposes relates to everything mankind has created. By revealing the semantic changes in the connotation of the word technology and providing a chronological sequence of related conceptions, we can acknowledge how current technology changes our perception of the term.

‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’ Human beings have made do with their lot since time immemorial. Humanity has constantly tried to adapt to the world that it finds itself in, to conquer the environment in order to live more comfortable lives. Quite unlike the rest of the life forms that are present on earth, human beings have the distinction of having the capacity to create the most ingenuous ways of adapting and changing the environment to his favor-technology. Technology can be summed up as the use of non-human organisms, mechanisms or machinery to complete tasks at the command of the controlling individual.

In today’s society, modern technology is evidently developing rapidly and it is portrayed as a negative impact. It can be seen that technology is a substitution of all characteristics of life. The purpose of every technological invention is to benefit the lives of mankind; thus re-enforcing the positive connotation of technology. However, in long term it may not be beneficial; such as, education, work and leisure are all becoming dependent on technology; cyberspace is dangerous and child obesity is increasing.

Technology has been the nucleus of human advancement since the beginning of time, yet the idea of technology has been perpetually morphing till current day. My generation is to considered as the technological age. The rise of computers, smartphones, GPS and so many other technological entities has been introduced in the last 50 years or so has made the life of the average human being a lot more efficient, to say the least. But how should we think about the place of technology in our lives?