What is the usability of a technological device? Should it be limited to functional and rational ends of effective, efficient, engaging, error tolerant, and easy to use criteria, Or must we now consider ethics of presentation and the repercussions of replacing previous modes of expression and utility in our lives.
Main modes are expressed to define the ethical quagmires and framework of our human technology relationship to the world and two each other (inter-social and human->machine)Don Ihde’s theory holds that technology has no neutrality.
Technology transforms experience, as water on glasses biases the vision. a child limited exposure to keep bionic implant devices safe.
A human with a gun certainly changes the relation that human will have with the world around him. Technology is transformative in the macro and micro context it allows us access to and inversely blinds us to the normal scale we usually consider.
Desensitized to technology we see through it without a distinction between ourselves and it
“taken within my own bodily experience” An interesting blur of the distinction between glasses “actional” and speedometer “hermeneutic” levels of technology interface is augmented reality ipad games. Its just a screen that is in no way the see through surface of prescription glasses. but somehow the speedometers of facebook information can pop up and augment registered objects with the visual field of some overlay apps.
Actional
(human->Tech)->World
Heumenutic
human (tech->world)
Alterity relation
human-> tech-(-world)
THis is the cool one when you attack a computer because it lost your word processor information. Or trust to a machine to accomplish a goal and almost think of it as a trusted familiar that would never betray you but only do as you command, Whats your computer’s zodiac sign? I’ve certainly had some love hate relationships with my cars.
Albert Borgmans device paradigm is a pessimistic theory about the removal of focal principles and foundational enduring objects in our life swapped out for commercial, commodities that separate and isolate our original intentions and requirements from our tools and methods of self maintenance. Focal things like the hearth had many social and survival roles in early human living, THings like electric blankets, and central heating systems remove original focal objects from our life separating out our needs into commodities without much intrinsic worth. Wood-> fire-> warmth->family turned into job->gas bill->pilot light switch->warmth->family.
Disengaged from isolating and disposable interaction with these alien commodities we become passive and separated from original “natural” forms and human means.
Alterity is otherness of the thermostat compared to the fireplace. Of a video game compared to a human chess player. We experience out machines as a sort of passive human being that models our behaviors to follow suit.
I enjoyed this reading and am interested to consider ethics of technologies integration into human activities and lifestyle as a dangerous decline and vastly productive acceleration of our capabilities.