Broken technologies : the humanist as engineer. Updated November 2015
Författare
Summary, in English
There are many possible definitions of “technology” and I will discuss some of these in this book. However, in this introduction let me use a definition of Svante Lindqvist who defines technology very intuitively as “those activities, directed towards the satisfaction of human wants, which produce change in the material world.” He says also “the distinction between human “wants” and more limited human “needs” is crucial, for we do not use technology only to satisfy our essential material requirements.” Consequently, from this perspective, a technology that is “broken” could be defined as those activities, directed towards the satisfaction of human wants that are intended to produce changes in the material world that either do not manage to satisfy these wants or do not produce changes in the material world, or both. This is the third edition, updated October 2015.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
The Humanist as an Engineer
Volym
I
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Bok
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- History of Ideas
Nyckelord
- phenomenology
- artefact
- Engineer
- Humanist
- Technology
- brokenness
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-633-3683-6