Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2023, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (4): 8-14.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2023.04.002

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Analysis of the Evolution Law of Technophobia

WANG Bin1,2 , KONG Yan1   

  1. (1. School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; 2. School of Law, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China)
  • Published:2023-08-15
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Abstract: Modern technophobia has been attached to technology and evolved along with its development and progress since its birth. The evolution of technophobia is a comprehensive process of ephemeral process and co-occurrence. Combining the four dialectical relationships of technology between the known and the unknown, the simple and the complex, the existential and the real, and the explicit and the implicit, the study finds that the evolution of technophobia is the evolution of the known fear of technological backwardness towards the unknown fear of technological advancement, the evolution of the monistic fear of single technology towards the multifaceted fear of compound technology, the evolution of the real fear of technological phenomenon towards the existential fear of technological system, and the evolution of the explicit fear of death technology towards the implicit fear of life technology. The regular cognition of technophobia will be conducive to dissipating the negative effects of technophobia while bringing into play the positive values of technophobia and truly promoting the realization of the purposeful value of technology in serving people.

Key words: technophobia; process evolution; form evolution; evolution law

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