최근 읽은 기술 철학에 관한 글 중에서 가장 정교하고 치밀한 글인 것 같다. 조금 길고 읽기 난해했지만, 그래도 읽기를 잘 했다. 소프트웨어 업계에 종사하는 모든 사람들에게 일독을 권한다.
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New article: this time, we use Heidegger to explain why the "it's just a tool" line that often comes up in tech is so very silly: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool
New article: this time, we use Heidegger to explain why the "it's just a tool" line that often comes up in tech is so very silly:
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool
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There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech
Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. A tool is thus any kind of thing that *lets you do something you wouldn't otherwise have been able to*. The important (for us) conceptual leap here is that when a tool works well, or isn't broken, it develops what Heidegger describes as a "ready-to-hand" quality: the tool fades into the background as a kind of human-tool gestalt of a human with the additional capability afforded by a tool forms. As a simple example of this, consider eating with a fork. When the fork is well-designed and not broken, *you don't explicitly have "I am using a fork" in your conscious mind while eating dinner*.
