প্রযুক্তির দর্শন ও ভবিষ্যতের মানুষ

Philosophy of technology and the man in future

Abstract

Homo Neanderthal is no more a fiction story in 2023. The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, Svante Paabo, has done the sequencing of the genome of the Neanderthal. Yuval Noah Harari has mentioned some other species of human existence alongside those of Homo Neanderthal, Homo erectus, Homo soloensis, Homo rudolfensis, and Homo ergaster. Homo sapiens is a wise man. It can be surmised from the research of the genetic engineers that the forefathers of Sapiens used technology. The hunters hunted by using technology. The agricultural civilization is completely dependent on technology. The first and second industrial revolutions made Sapiens dependent more on technology. If the fourth industrial revolution gets fully materialized, then not only humans will be dependent on technology but man’s usual ability to work will become dependent on technology to a great extent. The mystery of a wise man’s birth and death, that is, the rise and fall of the birth or death rate will be dependent on technology. Man has controlled the birth rate rapidly. Man will delay the process of death using technology in future. Biological Engineering and Cyborg Engineering are advancing fast. Now, connecting artificial intelligence with man’s usual intelligence is no longer a science fiction. Cyborg engineering is the combination of the organic and the non-organic. Though the age of technology is the age of man, the philosophy of technology is new in the domain of knowledge. The philosophy of technology gets its sway in the main stream philosophy of after the first and second World Wars. The German philosopher Ernst Christian Kapp (1808-1896) first used the two words “philosophy of technology”. The philosophy of technology is one of the branches of knowledge in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.