新一代高清视频技术的社会建构

The Struggle for Blu-ray Disc

本文是一个技术哲学的案例研究,以新一代高清视频格式蓝光BD和HD DVD的竞争为例,阐述了技术的发展路径是多元的,是由技术标准和社会标准共同决定的,究竟选取哪一种技术,取决于占主导的利益集团。历史上形成的既得利益集团会继续控制新的技术和市场,从而加速技术、市场和社会的分裂。

This paper is a case study of philosophy of technology, based on struggle between Blu-ray Disc and High Definition DVD, in order to illuminate that technological development is overdetermined by both technical and social criteria of progress, and can therefore branch in any of several different directions depending on the prevailing hegemony. The history of the formation of the vested interest group will continue to con- trol new technologies and markets, and lead to accelerate the technological, market and social division.