Research On Lewis Mumford’s Thoughts Of Megamachine

Lewis Mumford is a famous20th century humanist technology philosopher. Histechnologyphilosophy has an important position in the academic. Mumford combined the technical problemstogether with human’s problems, which has been recognized as a model of humanism technologyhistory and technology philosophy. Mumford concerned about the dominant position of human intechnology, emphasizing the essential role of human mind in the entire history and socialdevelopment, analyzing the relationship between technology and human nature with his uniqueperspective. Based on sorting of Munford’s technology history staging ideas, technical classificationthoughts and organic technology thoughts, this thesis analyzed technological development impact tohuman nature in different periods, and thus emphasize the importance of attention to human nature，and then come out of the limitations of existing concept of organic technology.Lewis Mumford always believed that,we can escape from the the slavery ofthe"megamachine"through the establishment of the concept of organic technology.To Establishorganic technology concept,we need some specific practical measures.As a bureaucracy"megamachine",in the modern sense it refers to using a centralized system to build a moderntechnology system and development model.In capitalist countries,to get rid of the adverse effects of"megamachine",we must tracing the source.This is eliminate private ownership to solve thecontradiction between man and machine.While the introduction of foreign technology,our country hasalso been effected by the "megamachine",scientific and technological development has brought somenegative effects.Through serious research of Mumford’s philosophy of technology,combined with thetechnical problems in the development process,summed up that we need to focus on the status oftechnology development,play the roles of the human factors,religious factors,ethical factors,theimpact of technological to promote the development of these technologies development,with thescientific development concept to guide the healthy development of technology.