Blog #5 A Phenomenology Of Technics

When Ihde talks about embodying technologies and using them as if they were apart of us is something that I myself noticed within my everyday activities. Ihde's glasses example explains it all when he says they become transparent and are no longer noticed, but rather they are excepted as a way of perceiving the world and what is around us. As long as technologies do what they are suppose to and don't render off the unbeaten path causing problems they are transparent to us and are not thought about. Its when technologies are mediated by things such as a gauge or thermometer as Ihde uses that we get a hermeneutic relation, and when these mediation's or dividers malfunction or do something different then we perceive them to is when bodily and hermeneutic relations lose there transparency and become relevant to us because they are doing something different then we perceive them to do causing us to notice there extents and our use of them. The last and final point that Ihde touches on is the alterity relations with technology that takes a little different view then that of embodiment and hermeneutic relations which have the human and technology as being one or the technology as being transparent. In alterity relations technology can never really be one with the human and it can not replace what all humans have, physical strength or the face to face interactions in which some believe that technology has already replaced in some situations. this chapter is very eye opening and brings up several very diverse but intriguing arguments that make aware of exactly all the technologies that we use on a daily basis and how they have impacted our lives so dramatically.