Publication details
Fenomén technika
| Title in English | The phenomenon of technology |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací FF MU, Studia Philosophica B 51 |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | evolutionar ontology; nature; technology; culture; science |
| Description | The article is based on evolutionary ontology and deals with the basis of technology, two branches of technological development, the process of evolution of technology and a little known problem of the compatibility of biosphere with the sphere of technology. The author claims that technology is a way, procedure or algorithm by which man uses and controls living and non-living natural processes, structures and powers for their own cultural purposes. The tool, the machine and the automatic system are considered to be hunting and gathering, the second being planetary spread of agriculture, animal keeping and breeding. The third phase consists of modern biotechnologies, cloning and gengetic manipulation. At the end the author points out that technology is the most active anti-natural subsystems of culture, is incompatible with living nature, supresses it and irreversibly damages. As it absorbs new structural information, though, it coulg form, in a regime od bio-friendly culture, and efficient way of reducing the current ecological crisis. |
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