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UCBerkeley> | QUESTIONING EFFICIENCY: HUMAN FACTORS AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY |
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Stages of Technology |
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Nurturing: poesis and Heidegger's other modes of revealing --------------------- 1. Early Modern (mode of revealing=Metaphysics) Using: - subjects and objects - world as a filling station - resources (coal) --------------------- 2. Meso-Modern (mode of revealing=Technicity) a.Discipline: - no longer subjects and objects - challenging-forth - regulating and securing (Rhine river as a source of energy, tourism, electricity etc..) b.Expediting: - efficiency - optimizing - maximum yield at minimum expense (assembly lines, Taylor's utopian claims, negative effects of Taylorism) c.Hyper-Expediting: - setting upon - pushing things beyond their nature and toward a goal - exploiting, dominating, subjugating. (agribusiness) --------------------- 3. Post-Modern(mode of revealing=Technicity) Constant Overcoming: - ordered to standby for further ordering - switching about ever anew - continuous maximizing of flexibility - keeping all options open - getting the most out of ones own "possibilities" - versatility, adaptability, innovation, - entrepreneurship (steve jobs) - always looking beyond any specific goals (Nietzsche: constant overcoming, "making a sun of my own") |