Analysing Ecological Character Of Technology

The analysis on the ecological character of technology may avoid one-sided understanding of technology. These one-sided understandings of technology and non-rational application have a serious impact on the coordinated development between man and nature. Faced with this problem, we need to introduce ecological theory and system theory into the analysis of technology. In order we analyze and construct technical system by simulating sophisticated construction and harmonious functions of natural ecosystems to avoid the conflict between technical application and mechanism of the natural ecosystem.The analysis on the ecological character of technology is to use the method that draw an analogy between natural system and technical system to analyze the ecological character of technology. ecosystem is a very broad inclusive concept; it is not only limited to natural ecological systems, but also including social ecosystem and technology ecosystem which is more broad understanding of it. In the social ecosystem,technology is in the changing process, and always interact with the surrounding politics, economy, and culture to build social ecosystem together, which is similar to the life in the natural ecosystem. Technology exist in the form of the system, it is the same as the natural ecosystems that is open, holistic, hierarchical, self-organizing system. In addition, the technology itself is in the concrescence, the cycle of life about technology to create the technical ecosystem. There is diversity of "technical species"in the technical ecosystem. These "technical species" interact with the surrounding environment. This interaction is similar to the mechanism of evolution, and symbiotic mechanism, the mechanism of genetic variation in the natural ecosystem .These mechanism make the Re-cycle mechanism come true.For analyzing on the ecological character of technology, it is necessary to study the various components of technology and the relations between technology and technical environment from the systematic, the integrated perspective. We should regard the functioning of natural ecosystems as an important source of guiding technological ecological research. Humankinds need to turn their own mechanical technological view to an ecological technological view gradually, in order to achieve the transformation from mechanical technologies to ecological technologies.