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How Technology Changes Us--
Share something from Verbeek's video that…
How Technology Changes Us--
Share something from Verbeek's video that really reasonated with you!! If someone writes something that you also agree with, add your name to the point
Lorraine: I LOVE the concept that technology should not be placed in the realm of objects, but in the world of relations.
Jennifer: I liked the idea of changing our perspective of technology to viewing it as the relationship between people and the world, because tech truly does influence our lives everyday, and plays a role in how live life. Technology plays a role in our perceptions and instead of alienating us, new experiences can be made by utilizing tech
Clay: The concept of intentionality resonated with me - the idea that we can't just see, but have to see something, etc...and then direct this at the world around us, and interpret it though our particular lens. In this way tech changes how we perceive and interact with the world around us (Lorraine likes this too)
Annika: I thought it was super interesting that technology has changed the way we view and understand what it means "to be" in the world. Further, technology makes these understandings "raw," which allows new understandings, definitions, and experiences to be formed.
Alicia Ebelher: The point that was made about how technology influences our perceptions resonated with me. Microperceptions (amplification or reduction) can induce a macroperception and ultimately change how we see things in the world. I
Allayna: I thought the move away from Heidegger's claim that intrinsic value gets lost in the use-value via the technological relationship to be interesting. Especially in terms of Material Hermeneutics and the process of human selection and interpretation of technological mediation even this argument still seemed fairly use-value orientated even though the premise is that the relationship doesn't necessarily impede intrinsic value interactions.
Amy T: I liked the concept of Technology being Present-At-Hand and moves towards Ready-To-Hand. I especially resonated with the analogy of the learning to drive a car: At first, you are hyper-aware of everything you are doing and what the car is doing [Present-At-Hand or the tech is Separate from you], then you become more confident and skilled at driving and many things become background subconscious things [Ready-To-Hand or the tech has become an Extension of you].
Duane: Heidegger's thought of technology as an interpretation of being was an interesting idea. The thought that technology acts as a way for us to interpret the world and ourselves and manipulate and redesign things and ideas to develop an alternative interpretation of the world is something that I had never thought of before. All the more reason to be careful about the ways in which we use technology.
Crystal: I really like his point: 'It doesn't make much sense to ask yourself a question about the world in itself, because as soon as you ask a question about the world in itself, it stops being the world in itself, and it becomes the world for you, as you interpret it.' This really highlighted the personal aspect of Technological Philosophy for me.
Vanessa - I found the concept of technology/tools creating a space of mediation to be intriguing. The fact that technology/tools can actually be used to make us pay more attention to the task at hand and the world around us.
Priyanka: I really like the example he used with Galileo and the moon and how technology can be used in order to gain knowledge about the world. I rarely ever think of it in this way as I feel I relate technology more to digital formats.
Klim: I liked the point about how technology gives us new ways of seeing the world that couldn't have existed before - that it's not alienating, but rather creating new forms of relations between people and the world. I especially liked the analogy that we can respond to this by embodying our technology, and to "look through our glasses, not at them"
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Nathan Fuehrer - I remember in my first undergrad studying the philosophical approach of phenomenology. I appreciate Verbeeks discussion about how we form a philosophy of technology based on reflecting upon our existential interaction with it..
Danielle - I thought it was interesting when he spoke about our perception of the world with technology. He mentioned that we can interact with technology to perceive the world, or technology can interact with the world in order for humans to interpret it. The example that explained this was using a thermometer; technology interacts with the world, and then humans interpret that interaction in order to determine the temperature. This is very true, but I had never thought of our world perception being based upon technology. I have considered that technology will always exist and that we are likely incapable of escaping it, but the video allowed me to perceive the presence of technology very differently than I had before.
Bre- I found the concept of technology as a relation between us and the world. How we interact with the world through technology. While this does not always paint a great picture in your head, people using technology to interact with the world instead of interacting with it directly. It brings about an interesting idea that we at times use technology as a medium in order to interact and as a means of relation to the world.
Andie - The two things that stuck out to me was the way of looking at technology at the relation between humans the world. We are in a way mediated by our use of technology.
The second thing that I found fascinating was the way he described our attention around an object (to-hand or at-hand). I found his example of the car made perfect sense to me. I remember being terrified learning to drive and now that I'm a confident driver, I interact with the technology/car completely differently. In both cases though, the technology changes the way that I interacted with the world.
Heather: The concept of multi-stability really resonated with me. As Verbeek stated, technology doesn't have an essence, it is the outcome of the relations that we have with it. In other words, technology is not one just thing, it depends on how you look at it.
Brooke: I think the idea of connection that technology creates for us is something that we can all appreciate and would like to say is a benefit but at the same time technology has created a lot of disconnection.
Teri: I am fascinated how ideas come from one thing and morph into something else over time. According to Martin Heidegger. 'To Be' in Greek text, meant a coming into being (to be revealed). It was viewed as a verb at the time. Then 'Being' meant having been created by God (it comes from somewhere and has an origin). This idea was viewed as a noun. Then modern sciences view 'Being' objectively instead of subjectively (we become the human observer in a world out there). But today, Peter-Paul Verbeek states that technology is the current manifestation of what it means 'To Be'.
Danica: The idea of technology as mediating human relations resonated with me. He uses the example of a thermometer where we don't directly feel the cold or hot temperature, but rather, need to interpret it through the technology. We are reading the world through that technology.
Haley- the point that resonated with me in the video was how technologies make us perceive the world differently and how it can affect our sensory interaction with the world. The example he explained is a thermometer and the reading of it. When you go to look at a thermometer it gives you a number, no correlation to how it actually feels outside but with it we have to interpret the context of that weather outside. This can change the way we experience the world by making us dress warmer or put on shorts instead of pants.
I also really liked the line of looking through a pair of glasses instead of at them.
Emma: I appreciated the approach of opening with the acknowledgment of the negative connotation so commonly associated with technology. Especially when diving into ethical approaches, you get lost in the "horrors" of technology, and it makes it difficult to welcome the advancement that is made in a changing society. With that, this resonates the importance of intentionality specifically in the classroom. The idea that things of technology having an explicit role reminds me to be knowledgeable of that role before using it personally or professionally.
Brian - What I find fascinating about this discussion is the connection between the romantic disposition towards technology and phenomenology. Generational gaps have changed these aspects significantly. In the past, we were users looking from the outside of technology and now we are so deep inside that it is hard to understand our "being" before technology existed. Nature has changed. I feel like I can use my own experiences to note parts of this change simply due to my age. When I was a kid cellphones didn't exist. I think it was pagers way back then. There was only a minimalistic touch of tech influencing my daily life. I would say my experience at this point was hovering outside of the understanding of technology in a superficial way. And now I can't live without it and can barely think of an aspect of my life that doesn't intersect with it. Sometimes I think being human is being connected to our creations. As such technology has changed us as much as we have changed it.
Diego: There are a few points that I enjoyed learning about in this video. I enjoyed how he views who we really are in this world and how we have become because of technology. It is not a secret that we rely on it everyday. The example he used about the thermometer was enjoyable to read. How else would we know how cold or hot it would be outside? Technology has changed us in many ways. Our attention has shifted to technology tools.
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