The Historical Evolution Of The Relationship Between Man And Technology

Technical problems are historical phenomenon that human cannot avoid, so wemust pay special attention to it.The importance of the technical problems doesn’texist as a kind of special problems, but it is to make all problems become the kind ofproblems. However, whether from the angle of reality, the perspective of theoreticalresearch or the perspective of historical development or not, all kinds of technicalproblems in the final analysis is the issue of relationship between human andtechnology.With the relationship between human and technology as the theme, withhistorical time for clues, with western philosophy, science philosophy and technologyphilosophy, and history of technology as the content, to show all kinds of therelationship of human–technology in a deep insight into human development andtechnological changes.First, the subject is relationship between human and technology.Past research only pays attention to the definition and nature of human and technology,and only a handful of philosophers can put forward this topic explicitly.Second,change the way of two kinds of technology philosophy research. On the one hand,change the way of action to the participants from a bystander cognitive way. Thisshifting makes the technological research in the human activities, rather than makehuman as a bystander. On the other hand, change the way of the study of history fromthe unhistorical research methods. Only with history as clues can we understand thedeep root of relations of technical and figure out the path of evolution.Third, theresearch history of philosophy of technology can be divided into three periods. Thefirst period, the manual technology era, combines people and technology. This periodmainly shows the following three kinds of relationships between people andtechnology: symbiotic relationship, the relationship between the heterogeneous andcontradictory relationship; The second period, machine technology era, seperates therelationship between people and technology. During this period there are mainly thefollowing two kinds of relationships between people and technology: isomorphicrelations, the relationship between alienation; The third period, modern technologyera, is the multidimensional nature of human beings and technology. This periodmainly shows the following three kinds of relationships between people andtechnology: operating relationship, generation, technology phenomenology includingfour relations (embodiment relations，hermeneutic relations，alterity relations and background relations).Under the influence of postmodern technology view characterized by the essenceof socialism, the discussion of the essence of technology has become impossible.Traditional relationship between people and technology is a fierce challenge.Therefore, understanding the relationship between people and technology needs amore open field of vision. In fact, not people created the technology, but technologyhas created people. Technology is one way of existence way, and people are also thebasis of development and fundament of technology. The definition of the relationshipbetween people and technology needs each other to define, and human relationship oftechnology gradually goes to the same under the influence of postmodern technologyview.