Choosing to Choose: The Impact of Technology on Choice

IF 3.3 3区 生物学 Q2 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Channels Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI:10.15385/JCH.2016.1.1.8
Aaron J. Alford
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Abstract The development of modern technology has increasingly focused on efficiency over expression. Interfaces limit and scale down human choice and expression. Entertainment and communication now use interfaced technology for even basic human expression, artificially limiting the number of potential choices to the options presented by the interface. The logic of technology has become a totalizing phenomenon, bringing all areas of human life under it purview. According to Heidegger, Ellul, and Flusser, the result of this development is a different way of being-in-the-world for humans. The traditional man has been the constant in production and communication, which the medium and technology have been the variable. The modern man has reversed his orientation towards technology, the man is the variable and the machine is the constant. Building machines no longer appears to serve humanity, but instead has become an end in itself. Due to the methods of technology and quantification of nearly every decision, free choice is becoming more and more difficult to comprehend. As a case study for these arguments, The Stanley Parable examines how media can be used to limit possible choices, and can also be used to encourage new forms of play that counteract the predictability of machines and technical communication through human expression and increased computer literacy.
选择:技术对选择的影响
现代技术的发展越来越注重效率而非表达。界面限制和缩小了人类的选择和表达。娱乐和通信现在甚至使用界面技术来进行基本的人类表达,人为地限制了界面所呈现的潜在选择的数量。技术的逻辑已经成为一种综合现象,将人类生活的所有领域纳入其范围。根据海德格尔、埃卢和弗卢瑟的说法,这种发展的结果是人类以一种不同的方式存在于世界上。在生产和交流中,传统的人是不变的,媒介和技术是可变的。现代人已经扭转了他对技术的取向,人是变量,机器是常量。制造机器似乎不再为人类服务,相反,它本身已经成为一种目的。由于几乎所有决策的技术和量化方法,自由选择正变得越来越难以理解。作为这些争论的一个案例,《斯坦利的寓言》研究了媒体如何被用来限制可能的选择,也可以用来鼓励新的游戏形式,通过人类表达和提高计算机素养来抵消机器和技术交流的可预测性。
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Channels
Channels 生物-生化与分子生物学
CiteScore
5.90
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0.00%
发文量
21
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Channels is an open access journal for all aspects of ion channel research. The journal publishes high quality papers that shed new light on ion channel and ion transporter/exchanger function, structure, biophysics, pharmacology, and regulation in health and disease. Channels welcomes interdisciplinary approaches that address ion channel physiology in areas such as neuroscience, cardiovascular sciences, cancer research, endocrinology, and gastroenterology. Our aim is to foster communication among the ion channel and transporter communities and facilitate the advancement of the field.
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