The lecture will analyze technics as one of the key aspects of human activity.
The Greek word “tekhnē” meant “mastership” and a variety of “skills”, including art. Technics as construction and implementation of different devices has a great history, from the tools of primitive man to the most elaborate modern gadgets. Philosophically speaking, it can be understood as the component of culture that opposes nature and seeks to subordinate it. Resulting from this phenomenon, two possible, alternative scenarios can develop: a bright future full of perfect human assistants, or a bleak dystopia where technology itself obstructs the human.