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Jorge Riechmann Fernández
Una relectura crítica de uno de los textos seminales de la filosofía de la tecnología del siglo XX, la Meditación de la técnica de Ortega y Gasset (1933), permite ganar perspectiva para valorar la encrucijada civilizatoria donde nos encontramos hoy. Remedando el lema del Foro Social Mundial de Porto Alegre: muchas técnicas son posibles y otras técnicas son posibles, pero ¿seguiremos la vía de una técnica biomimética capaz de aprender de la naturaleza o, más bien, nos embarcaremos en las dudosas aventuras que nos propone la tecnociencia sintética? Eros ha de situarse en el puesto de mando, frente al impulso tanático que alienta en la tecnociencia.
The philosophy of technology has one of its seminal texts in Meditación de la técnica, some lectures José Ortega y Gasset gave in 1933. I suggest that re-reading this work could facilitate us a better perspective to evaluate the civilization crossroads where we stand today. We could say -imitating the World Social Forum's motto--: many techniques are possible, and other techniques are possible, but shall we go the way of a biomimicry technology which could learn from The philosophy of technology has one of its seminal texts in Meditación de la técnica, some lectures José Ortega y Gasset gave in 1933. I suggest that re-reading this work could facilitate us a better perspective to evaluate the civilization crossroads where we stand today. We could say -imitating the World Social Forum's motto--: many techniques are possible, and other techniques are possible, but shall we go the way of a biomimicry technology which could learn from nature, or shall we follow the dubious paths which synthetic technoscience suggests? Eros should have command, and not the thanatic drive which lives in technoscience.
