Technology
Technology, the way scientifically articles are build up is by making an introduction involving the state of the art. So Technology is art? ‘Techne’ means art in old Greek and logy is ‘science of’ so the name possess this asset. To see what the state of the art is Antoine, Martin and Ralf went ahead and made a journey. This was a tour to see people involved in past, current and future technology. In it a search to the influence technology has on current human life and with it look in energy transition and the art.
To start, technology was always present in human life. From the creation of fire to nuclear fusion. Humans slowly started to get comfortable by using more technology until the point that one isn’t able to survive without it. Currently it determines a great deal on how we see the world, with all the dangers of it on hand. Waking up most of us automatically reach to an advanced integrated circuit powered by electrons driven by huge turbine engines quite some distance from their homes. This continues throughout the day and technology is everywhere.
The need for technology is born within a society but can work vice versa. It is hard to stay in the middle of this line. In the future more and more will society be dependent on technology a so also human life. This will have good and bad consequences. An example that came forward in a couple of interviews, the mobile telephone. Everybody has an opinion whether it’s good or bad or more nuanced but it’s here and society has adapted to owning one.
The way technology can be created has a couple different paths. Technology is the usage of scientific knowledge to a concrete form. The scientific knowledge present can and will be used to get a competitive advantage for a company. Another path is a demand in which research must come up with a new technology, like medicine for example. These type of relationships are further danced in technology philosophy.
The technology philosophy has as recognized founder Ernst Kapp with his book ‘Elements of a Philosophy of Technology’ written in 1877. Currently the technology is seen as a relationship of how humans experience reality by some known philosophers. They see technology as a new autonomous cultural system has the possibility to control all and everything. This had led to a contrary movement which involves the communitive forces acting on technology. This makes room for the idea of co-evolution.
They articles listed are looking into this co-evolution predominantly with one eye of the future. But to look were its headed one must also know where it came from. The people interviewed give their point of view from their own lives, which involves of course their specializations. Feel free to enjoy the stories they shared.
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Stress and technology
Technology helps humans advance but as the old saying goes: what goes up must come down. Let’s hope the common welfare will last, still other disadvantages of technology are reported more and more. Currently minimalism is on the rising as a reaction to materialism enabled by technology. Impulse management is not something to be ashamed of anymore but is rather depicted as a necessary step to regain full awareness and consciousness. To keep busy is a state that everybody desires and the technology enables this now more then ever before.
‘A brief history of executive burnout' by Andrew Hill discusses stress and related issues increase in technology. In his article one issue is predominant: stress related complains such as burnouts have been around as early as 1860s and most probable even before that time as can be seen through the advertisement in papers. Such an advertisement was pleading for a long get away after a mental break down to a faraway place.
A mental breakdown has already gotten in such an early stage a 'badge of pride' as well as a good excuse to go on a holiday. These kind of cures peaked during the 1890 after which slowly the get away were seen more as self-indulgent.
Even though getaways like those proposed back in the day are sometimes still seen as a solution mental breakdowns other 'cures' have found their way. The cause, working too hard and being in a state of alertness all day as a result connectivity unseen before, requires a extravagant solution as well: Work hard play hard can in this case be seen as work hard rest really intensive until you can back to the work force. Courses on mindfulness, mediation or total anti-stress rehabs make sure that those expenses can be made. Thereby a whole new market is emerging, the health monitoring market.
With apps gadgets and widgets all functions of the body should be monitored in order to keep safe and hard working. With logic in mind this also has its price.
Enough with the symptoms of society and going back to the core case: has society really gotten more stressful as function of the increase in technology and with it information? 'The creed of speed' article of the Economy states clear an increase in the pace business today is at is hardly notable higher than that of the late 20th century. Besides, looking at the emergence of technology and increase of information changes currently happening aren’t necessarily more drastic then already happened before. A brief history of executive burnout makes a very interesting example of the arrival of the telegraph pointing out it was 'more revolutionary than the internet, reducing the transmission of information from weeks to hours.
Despite an increase in money spend in mental and physical health course an investment in awareness still could be beneficial to the work floor. The expensive course should be integrated in the average day work schedule instead of a quick fix of a couple of weeks.