文明进步中的技术使用问题

Technology Utilization in the Progress of Civilization

在现代社会里,技术已然成为人的存在方式,技术的本质却在于使用,因为只有在使用中技术才能获得其意义并实现其价值,使用则是一项技术性很强的人类实践活动,具有着技术的内涵,这样,使用实际上是技术的显现和寓身之所。人类通过对技术的使用,不但构造了生存处境,也生成了生活世界。在生活世界里所展开的技术使用实践,实际上是技术功能在生活世界的情境化。在社会科学领域里,技术使用是与技术设计相对应的一个重要范畴,是区别于技术发明、技术设计和技术生产的本体性概念,是具有生命特质的独立实存。我们正处于建设创新型国家的关键时期,创新不仅依赖于技术,更依赖于使用技术的人即使用者,科学发展的实质就是要实现技术与作为使用者的人类之间的可持续发展和协调发展,这一目标的实现具体蕴含在技术与使用者双向建构的活动过程中。

In modern society , technology has become a mode of being for mankind.The essence of technology lies in its use , for it is only in use that its meaning and value can be realized.Use is a form of human practice that is strongly technological in nature and has technological connotations ; thus it is in fact the locus where technology is manifested and takes up its abode.Through the use of technology , man not only constructs the circumstances of his existence , but also generates the life- world.The use of technology in the practice of the life-world is in fact the contextualization of the function of technology in the life-world.In the domain of social sciences , technology use is an important category that is the counterpart of technological design , an ontological concept distinct from technological invention , design and production , and an independent entity with the character of life.We are in a crucial period in building an innovative country ; and innovation hinges not only on technology , but , more importantly , on users , i.e. , the people who use the technology. The essence of scientific development is to achieve the sustainable and coordinated development of technology and mankind as the users of technology.The achievement of this objective is concretely reflected in the mutual construction of technology and its users.