Can Technology Move towards Democracy?——Reflections on the"Optionality"of Technology
Public participation has increasingly become a core issue in the ethics of technology and politics of tech-nology.The narrow rationality of the traditional view of technology obscures the social dimension in the essence of technology and conceals bias of technology.The democratization of technology has both inherent potentials and practical difficulties.It faces the challenge of"control dilemma",and the"optionality"of technology is constrain-ed by the problems of uncertainty and transformability.Therefore,the democratization of technology must not only focus on multiple values,but also consider multiple types of technology.According to the two dimensions of uncer-tainty and transferability,technology can be divided into four types.Among them,the democratization of experi-mental technology is the process that generates new methods for technological innovation-governance,which can reshape the rules of micro-political practice,limit the disorderly expansion of technological power,and thus is the key to achieving"socio-technological transition".
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