Технология
Technology

Schatzberg, Е. (2018). Tech.nol.o.gy: Critical History of a Concept. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 344 p. ISBN 978-0-226-58397-6

Summary/Abstract: In modern life, technology is everywhere. But what is it? In this book Erik Schatzberg explains why technology is so difficult to define by examining its three-thousand-year history, one shaped by persistent tensions between scholars and technical practitioners. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, scholars have tended to hold technicians in low esteem, defining technical practices as mere means toward ends defined by others. Technicians, in contrast, have repeatedly pushed back, insisting on the dignity, creativity, and cultural worth of their work. The tension between scholars and technicians continued from Aristotle through Francis Bacon and into the nineteenth century. It was only in the twentieth century that modern meaning of technology arose: technology as the industrial arts, technology as applied science, and technology as technique. The author traces these three meanings to the present day, when talk about technology has become pervasive, but conclusion among the three principle meanings of technology remains common. The author shows that only through a humanistic concept of technology can we understand the complex human choices embedded in our modern world

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