Technophiles vs technophobes
Technophiles and technophobes disagree on the relationship
between real world and virtual world in the XXI century as tore Byzantium in
the eighth century, who fought iconodules iconoclasts and the relationship
between the divine world and its visual representations.
Technophiles think technology ultimately decisive: on it, will be modeled
attitudes and institutions. It is a liberating force necessarily: the old
limitations we imposed our physical, mental or social will be exceeded.
To his supporters, the technique extend the capabilities of our senses and our
minds, freed of the need. To the tune of "Tomorrow we can ..."
Tomorrow we can communicate faster, instant access to the object of his desire
to explore all the archives, escape all censure, gather all the brains, to
dispense with all the burdens of the material. This project takes shape in an
information society, and libertarian technician at a time. Facing them, think
in terms of catastrophic loss: loss of humanity in favor of instrumental
reason, loss of critical distance for the benefit of the fascination, loss of
identity in a world of virtuality, loss of reality replaced by the show loss of
freedom subject to the logical techniques, loss of writing defeated by the
screen ...
The technophile certain to be in the direction of history, generally ignores
the objections, which he attributes to ignorance, or an archaic mentality.
Overflowing with good will teaching, it does not fail to point out to his
opponent that he is at liberty to speak or even to create virtual communities
of technophobes cyber-complainers. He argues that in there is room for anyone who
wants to open up the universal and for anyone who wants to confine themselves
within the borders of his clan, the cyber welcome all including its critical
discourse He strongly believes that any cohabitation with all the movement and
expansion will continue. The rejection of new technologies as a matter of taste
or culture, a relatively insignificant trend and sentenced to long-term
stiffening or crisis accommodation. The utopian, inhabited by a spirit willing
messianic attempts to share the enthusiasm he felt for any new network growth
or announcement of a technological innovation. He therefore saw little danger
in the opposition as he feels in a position covered by the sense of history.
The catastrophic, he, thinks in terms of struggle and imagine resisting the
system. He denounces an opposing ideology which he fights inauthenticity. For,
if he fears the loss of our independence or our abilities, attributes the
catastrophic in a large part of responsibility in opposing discourse. He often
addressed as a language of power, designed to conceal the power relations and
special interest as a universal project.
Technophobia
This word refers to a recent fear of technology (taken here not in the sense of
"study techniques" but all these techniques, in particular ICT).
Technophobia is often used trivially to mock those who are unable to use their
computer, or develop irrational fears about the Internet. In fact there are
several degrees in this "aversion" .. One is distinguished by: the
inability or choice not to use ICT in their life. At this point, it is a trait
or behavior reflecting the subjectivity of an individual who surfs the Internet
or not, or prefer to write by hand ...
A second form of technophobia is a general assessment of the usefulness of ICT,
especially Internet in particular; Some, for example, emphasize the dangers of
the Internet - risk of fraud, proliferation of pornography or extremist speech,
ability to chain failures, espionage of privacy ... or are technophobes -
wrongly or rightly - those who are skeptical of all the wonders qu'espèrent the
"technophiles" confident about the future of the company's
Information: productivity gains, new economy, availability of information,
emergence of e-democracy in the "global village", new possibilities
of expression and culture. This techno-there is some assessment of benefit or
harm of future developments in technology and their social, political ... The
difference between "for" and "against" focuses on the
likelihood of events in which both are essentially the same trial.
Would then define a technophobia "in principle": that which rejects
the very notion of a progression of techniques. Would meet this definition the
attitude of some environmentalists who condemn greed as a manifestation of
unnecessary any action of man to increase his powers.
Others denounce in new technology, not an increase in our capacity but an
enslavement or alienation. They attack the character of the inauthentic world
of networks: false equality, false democracy, false knowledge, false report
with the other short, false promises and real alienation. Manifested by
nostalgia for what they believe to lose: the common experience of life and its
rhythms, the territory that allowed everyone to be between near and far, that
of shared memory, that of the identity in the age of cybernetic avatars,
virtual communities and changing lifestyle choices ...
In some respects, the quarrel between technophiles and technophobes remember
quarrels older: for or against the image in the monotheistic religions, for or
against the theater in the eighteenth century (the quarrel of the show), for or
against the mass media in the twentieth ...
